I’ve discovered Akonadi, a KDE service. As far as I could understand, Akonadi provides “personal information management” and is responsible for some interaction between apps within the KDE ecosystem. To me, it seems to be bloatware. Somebody may use the functions it provides, but I do not. It is just running in background all the time with no use.
- How do I completely disable it forever?
- Have you ever met something else in Linux or it’s ecosystem, that appeared to be bloatware to you (and how did you disable it)?
I know what it is, that’s why I’m so sure I don’t need it for my tasks. The disturbing thing is of course not the data storage itself, but its movement accross my system. I’m okay with having social media accounts, but I’m not okay with shit like TikTok (don’t use it though, just an example) knowing each of my contacts from Signal or whatever, or the browser knowing what I’ve planned for August 16 at 04:40 PM in my calendar. I want user apps to minimally interchange any kind of data. Why would I ever use Linux if not to have control over this?
The CPU and RAM usage might be negligible, but only until there’s only one or two services like this. And I don’t think that a service, that I don’t use at all in any way, should occupy any amount of my RAM.