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raises pendantic finger Ah-hem, sorry, but KDE Plasma isn't an OS. It's a desktop environment. For an OS bundled/built-around Plasma then Kubuntu or KDE Neon are both Linux distributions that would better fit that description.
We could call it Plasma/Linux or as I've recently taken to calling it, Plasma plus Linux.
Thank you for interjecting.
KDE's plasma centered Linux Operating system. So to not be overly pedantic, I stuck with what this lemmy post was about. I didn't say the plasma desktop environment was an OS.
I said "a linux operating system made by the KDE team" in which the KDE team referenced their OS as Plasma in the Mastodon post, or "toot," shown in this lemmy post.
Or a GNU operating system with a Linux kernel and KDE desktop environment
But that's a mouthful