I tried it CentOS 8 immediately 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 the CentOS Stream. The new CentOS Stream according to the developers is described as a platform that is between the Fedora distribution and RHEL.
Right after the first one installation ανακάλυψα ότι η ενημερωμένη έκδοση της διανομής δεν υποστήριζε το KDE. Έτσι έπρεπε να "ζήσω" με το GNOME που δεν προσφέρει ευελιξία στο HiDPI (High Dots Per Inch) όπως αυτή που διαθέτει το KDE.
I tried to install KDE before it was released in its official repos 8 CentOS. 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
Make 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