Step 1: Installing KDE Plasma

Installing KDE Plasma is quite straight-forward, first start by installing the following packages:

You will be prompted with various options, I recommend you keep everything default except for choosing pipewire.

Enable sddm:

Step 2: Installing Recommend Packages

Highly Recommended

dolphin | A file manager.

kate | A text editor.

ark | An archive manager.

gwenview | An image viewer.

mpv | A very performant media player.

vlc | Another media player. I'd recommend trying mpv first.

firefox | A browser.

Optional

steam | Steam. Make sure you enable multi-lib in /etc/pacman.conf

prismlauncher | An open-source Minecraft launcher.

discord | Discord. I also recommend looking into Vesktop.

spotify-launcher | Spotify.

qpwgraph | A GUI for pipewire.

gparted | A GUI disk utility.

qbittorrent | A torrenting software.

vorta | A GUI wrapper for Borg backup.

flatpak | A package manager used for sandboxed applications.

wine | A tool that allows you to run Windows applications.

ffmpeg | The Swiss army knife of media conversion.

ffmpegthumbs | Display media thumbnails inside of Dolphin.

obs-studio | A video recorder.

audacity | An audio editor

gimp | A photo editor.

kio-admin | Useful for starting KDE applications as admin.

noto-fonts-cjk | Support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts.

noto-fonts-extra | Extra language support.

btop | A terminal-based system monitor utility.

AUR Packages

To install AUR packages, you will need to install a tool such as yay.

Optional

brave-bin | Brave browser.

gpu-screen-recorder-ui | An NVIDIA shadowplay like screen recorder.

vscodium-bin | Visual Studio Code.

vesktop-bin | Discord fork with improvements.