Install Fedora 29 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI)

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SCREENSHOT 21) The installation has finished. You should quit the installation program. Click on “Quit”.

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Quit the installation setup

SCREENSHOT 22) You are still in the Live image, so click on the top right corner, click on the “Leave” sub-menu.

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Restart your machine

SCREENSHOT 23) Click on “Reboot” to restart the system.

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Restart

SCREENSHOT 24) Confirm the restart of your machine and eject the installation media DVD or USB (unplug the USB flash drive)

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Confirm the restart

SCREENSHOT 25) Your freshly installed Fedora 29 KDE Plasma Desktop is the default boot option in the booting program (grub2).

As you can see we have two more Operating systems – Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS. The setup found these options and added to the boot menu.

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Grub – Fedora

SCREENSHOT 26) Select the user (in our case the default user is our only user “My user”, which we created during the installation) and type your password, then hit “Enter”.

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Login screen of Fedora 29 KDE Plasma Desktop

SCREENSHOT 27) The Fedora 29 KDE Plasma Desktop is starting…

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Starting Plasma made by KDE

SCREENSHOT 28) This is the default view of Fedora 29 KDE Plasma Desktop.

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Default view of Fedora 29 KDE Plasma Desktop

SCREENSHOT 29) Lists the default installed applications ordered in sub-menus.

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Fedora 29 KDE Plasma Desktop – Applications

SCREENSHOT 30) About our machine and Fedora 29 software information

KDE Plasma Desktop version installed from the installation disk is: KDE Plasma version: 5.13.5, KDE Frameworks version: 5.50.0 and QT version: 5.11.1 (no updates applied). The system is AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X with 32G and Graphics is NVIDIA GPU hardware. By default it uses the open source GPU driver nouveau.

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Fedora 29 KDE Plasma Desktop – About

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