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KDE Plasma is a cross-platform desktop environment and software compilation, commonly used on Linux.

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KDE Plasma is an open-source, cross-platform desktop environment and software compilation based on the toolkit. It is one of the two most popular desktop environments on Linux, the other being .

KDE originally stood for K Desktop Environment, but it has since been rebranded as just KDE.

For questions specific to the KDE 4 version, you can use the tag.