Plasma is very lightweight, so no complains here. Although they could implement some convenience-stuff, like Kwallet as default keyring + autostart via dbus. Or a keyfile, so you don’t have to enter your password twice, in case you use full-disk encryption and a swap partition. Small things, but I see little reason not to do it like that. It’s stuff that’s trivial for powerusers but scary for the less experienced.

At some point I’ll probably need something that supports Wayland, but their custom XFCE is so nice, I love it

I’m using EndeavourOS with Sway

Great news. Seems that most of the community uses KDE anyway, so this should make things faster for most installations

I tried out them in live usb but thought the UI was fugly as all hell. Somehow the attempt to make it look nice made it worse.

Cool that they’re moving to KDE as a default though