Detailed review of Raspberry Pi OS with the Plasma desktop environment running on Raspberry Pi 4, covering initial setup, look and feel, customization, system responsiveness and performance with and without compositing, video performance, heating, numerous discrepancies and differences from Manjaro KDE 2004, various bugs and problems, and more.
It uses package raspi-firmware that is in Debian, the kernel+initramfs+DTB are directly loaded by start (4).elf via cmdline.txt and config.txt, so no EFI+GRUB in between. The Pi3B is solar powered and uses it always, the other two are for testing. The Pi4B currently runs KDE Plasma (X11). The Pi4B also can boot UEFI based Debian, I re-used a1 day ago Ā· Kodi is also available to install as Flatpak package. It runs in sandbox, however, support ARM64 (Apple Silicon, Raspberry Pi, etc.) devices. Linux Mint 21 and higher, can directly search for and install Kodi as Flatpak package from Software Manager. While, Ubuntu user can run the 2 commands below one by one in terminal to get the Flatpak package:Desktop-installer doesnt install minimal kde but a rather heafty bundle of packages, on my install i went with plasma5-plasma and added few other packages, might be a good idea of indicate in the guide what KDE apps are bundled in with this installer. PY9c.