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KaOS Linux no longer defaults to KDE Plasma.
In Plasma's place is the scrollable tiling Niri.
KaOS is free to install and use.
Over the years, I've watched Linux distributions make all sorts of changes -- some that made sense and some that didn't. So when I read that KaOS was dropping the KDE Plasma desktop in favor of Niri (which I'd never heard of), I thought, "Hoo boy, this marks the beginning of the end."
I was wrong. Niri is actually pretty cool.
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