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I installed KDE plasma on my Ubuntu 20.04 using kde-standard but I now I found out more options like kde-full and kubuntu-desktop. I want to know which option should I use to have the complete KDE package while still preserving the default GNOME desktop .

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As from this Ubuntu wiki article

These packages below are meta-packages -- they depend upon other, "real", packages, and with their installation they pull them in.

kde-plasma-desktop -- Bare-minimum installation. Including basic utilities like a file manager, browser, and terminal emulator.

kde-standard -- Everything in kde-plasma-desktop with a standard suit of system utilities (for example, calculator, email, media player, and advanced text editor)

kde-full -- Everything in kde-standard with extra system utilities, games, and educational applications.

kde-standard is recommended. You can install packages from kde-full afterwards if you want those extra features.

You can install the full kde-full package for example but never ever enable KDE as default desktop (you need to do that manually from the login screen) but be aware that as GNOME uses GTK and KDE Qt for graphics, you may get (your mileage may vary depending on apps that you're using) a bunch of graphical issues for the KDE apps in GNOME or as stated in this answer it may cause a higher than normal system resources usages

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  • so I can install kubuntu-desktop without worrying about replacing GNOME or default apps, right? – ubuntu-newbie Mar 02 '21 at 07:01
  • This post is out of date. The recommended meta package is now kde-standard. I've installed this just now and verified that it has all I need and is not so monstrous like the kde-full. – Timothy C. Quinn Mar 24 '23 at 21:23