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FreeBSD is a No-Go for KDE's Plasma Login Manager
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FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system that has roots in Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which itself originated from research conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1970s.
The OS is known for its advanced networking features, security capabilities, and freedom-focused licensing, finding use in a wide range of hardware ranging from embedded systems to being the backbone of major cloud services.
Unfortunately, it looks like KDE's Plasma Login Manager won't be working on it, as an accepted merge request sees the focus turn to compatibility on Linux systems.
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KDE Plasma 6.6 beta ships a login manager that won't log in without systemd
KDE Plasma 6.6 is approaching, and one of its more controversial changes is a new login screen that depends on systemd – meaning that it won't work on the non-Linux operating systems KDE still nominally supports.
The first beta is now available. The KDE project has published a full changelog covering the differences between the current Plasma 6.5.5 release and what's internally known as Plasma 6.5.90, although, at nearly 2,500 lines, it's not exactly light reading. The KDE Wiki has a more digestible list that summarizes just under 40 significant changes.
One of these looks relatively inconspicuous. There's a new login screen called the Plasma Login Manager, which is forked from the existing SDDM. SDDM stands for Simple Desktop Display Manager and as the Arch Wiki describes: "It is the recommended display manager for the LXQt desktop environment."
However, the Plasma Login Manager depends upon the systemd-logind service. It will only work on Linux distros that use systemd; indeed, the developers of the new project explicitly dropped FreeBSD support in December 2025. The developers have defended the move in a Reddit discussion, and don't look likely to change their minds. This isn't stopping distros adopting it: it's already available in Arch Linux and the performance-oriented Arch variant CachyOS's new January 2026 release defaults to using the Plasma Login Manager.