Does installing KDE increase the attack surface?

On the one hand, bugs in dom0 are not dangerous, because you don’t run untrusted software there, which would exploit them.

On the other hand, there is a long discussion here about importance of minimizing dom0 and its implications for the security.

I would say that the attack surface increases very little, which should only concern you if you defend against serious attackers with huge resources.

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