Setting up KDE

Getting the desktop

Installing packages

Install the X server and KDE metapackages:

sudo xbps-install xorg kde5 kde5-baseapps

Enabling the display manager

Enable the sddm service without automatic start:

sudo touch /etc/sv/sddm/down
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/sddm /var/service

Then reboot. After logging back in, you can test that sddm works correctly with:

sudo sv start sddm

On the desktop

You should've loaded into KDE at this point. If you did, congratulations! You can go ahead and make sddm start automatically if so:

sudo rm /var/service/sddm/down

KDE works relatively well out of the box and is rather customizable through settings alone. There are plenty of internet resources on ricing it up if you're interested.

Next steps

You'll probably want to set up audio and screenshare next; Installing an audio and media server explains how to do that.