Plasma desktop needs systemd for time and crashes
Plasma and KDE tools depend on systemd for time sync and crash handling, so non-systemd installs cannot remove it.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 7 October 2026 · last reported 8 October 2026
What's going wrong
KDE Plasma depends on systemd for two features: the automatic date and time setting, which relies on an NTP service being set up, and the drkonqi crash handler.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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