Graham: [KDE] Highlights from 2025

Nate Graham looks
back at how 2025 went for the KDE project.

Today Plasma is the default desktop environment in a bunch of the
hottest new gaming-focused distros, including Bazzite, CachyOS,
Garuda, Nobara, and of course SteamOS on Valve's gaming
devices. Fedora's Plasma edition was also promoted to co-equal
status with the GNOME edition, and Asahi Linux — the single
practical option for Linux on newer Macs — only supports KDE
Plasma. Parrot Linux recently switched to Plasma by default,
too. And Plasma remains the default on old standbys like
EndeavourOS, Manjaro, NixOS, OpenMandriva, Slackware and TuxedoOS —
which ships on all devices sold by Tuxedo Computers!