It’s always been just KDE to me. In the past year or so, I’ve noticed people calling Plasma KDE or even just Plasma. What happened? Why do people insist on making the name longer? Why the word Plasma? What is Plasma referring to? And, are they trying to move away from the KDE name to just Plasma?
Answer: Plasma is the desktop environment. KDE is the community that makes Plasma and many other related software.
It’s super confusing because “KDE” is literally the acronym for “K Desktop Environment”.
Wait until you learn what “GNU” stands for.
WINE would like to join the party
All I know is it’s not Unix.
I have an irrational fear of this acronym. I think I’m worried I might accidentally recurse forever, and that will become the only thing I do for the rest of my existence.
I thought it stood for “Kool Desktop Environment”
Yes, that was the original name, back in the 90’s.