I tried CentOS 8 right after its release, as it is one of the systems I have been using for years, on servers, workstations and desktops.
The new CentOS 8 operating system is available in two different ISOs: the well-known CentOS Linux, the traditional, stable RHEL-based operating system, and CentOS Stream. The new CentOS Stream according to the developers is described as a platform which is between Fedora and RHEL distribution.
Immediately after the first installation I discovered that the updated version of the distribution did not support KDE. So I had to "live" with GNOME which doesn't offer HiDPI (High Dots Per Inch) flexibility like KDE has.
I tried to install KDE before it was released in the official repos of CentOS 8. The result it was satisfactory but not perfect.
So today I did a fresh installation of CentOS 8 and managed to install KDE Plasma in version 5.18.
Let's see how:
First we need to install the epel repository which contains thousands of packages that do not exist in the CentOS repository.
dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
Do a dnf Update
dnf update
We are ready for installation
dnf --enablerepo = epel, PowerTools group -y install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" "base-x"
You can also enable PowerTools with the following command
dnf config-manager --enable PowerTools
Reboot and in Login select Plasma
