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I really hate the harsh colouring of the terminals in both RpiOS and windows, it makes them look so unwelcoming and dangerous, especially for beginners.
I much prefer the colours on the KDE and GNOME terminals and wish more OSes implement them
I totally support adopting KDE as RPi default DE
KDE is nice, but it's also a massive beast not very well suited to low power SBCs.
I think the Pi 4 and Pi 5 could run it pretty well. Definitely would recommend it for older Pi models though.
Plasma is one of the lowest resource utilization DEs available. Has been for years now. I get tired of hearing this from people that last used KDE at like version 4.
RPis are really low spec though, I tried to run GNOME on my 3b+ and it was so laggy