[valianteffort]

I don't use KDE personally because it ships with an absurd amount of bloat. And ever since I setup Hyprland I have had no need for anything else.

[wetpaws]

KDE apps are not included in the plasma by default. Plasma itself is very lightweight.

[valianteffort]

Sorry, I was referring to the bundle that Asahi Linux is using. I had a bad time trying to uninstall each package one-by-one and decided to just start with a minimal install instead.

[wkat4242]

Same on FreeBSD. It comes with the basics. Some apps like Krita or Kdenlive are pretty heavy but also incredibly powerful. So I have opted to install them but they are not in the base package.

I think some small apps like Konsole, Kate, Dolphin and KWallet come in the default install but you can't really do without them.

[darthrupert]

It does have some visual bloat when you compare it to modern tiling wms, though.

[wkat4242]

True but it's much more than a WM. Especially a tiling one which are designed to be super basic :)