You Can Now Install KDE's Plasma Mobile on Your Android Smartphone, Here's How | Linux Today

You Can Now Install KDE’s Plasma Mobile on Your Android Smartphone, Here’s How

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Marius Nestor
Feb 14, 2018

If you want to try something new on your Android smartphone, the KDE Project provides the community with not one but two methods for installing its Plasma Mobile, a full-featured software system for mobile devices. The first method uses postmarketOS, a pre-configured Alpine Linux-based GNU/Linux distribution optimized for touchscreens and designed to offer KDE’s Plasma Mobile as a choice of desktop environment/user interface on top of the Wayland display server.

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Marius Nestor

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