When it's true, it's not a hoax. PLM requires KDE. A pure KDE system requires PLM. People can work around the PLM component, but it still holds that a pureKDE requires systemd now.
The KDE team should be embarrassed by this attempt to gaslight the open source community.
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2026-02-16 14:07:33 UTC
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