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.

  1. How do I completely disable it forever?
  2. 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)?
  • EchoDelta_9@programming.dev
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    8 hours ago

    Atomic desktops enforce immutability, the core system is literally a ROM almost like stock Android.

    Thank you for quenching my curiosity! The analogy to Android makes me worry that you might be associating stuff with atomic distros that are not (inherently) tied to them. Which, to be fair, happens a LOT, unfortunately…

    secureblue imposes slightly less restrictions.

    In short, as secureblue is ultimately derived from Fedora Atomic, it follows (most of) its conventions. Though, it’s most similar to uBlue in particular due to relying on their images initially. As such, all methods of installing software on say Bazzite apply to secureblue as well. Note, however, that secureblue prefers to keep it leaner for the sake of both security and simplicity. Finally, like Fedora Atomic and uBlue, it also allows you to customize the guts of your OS by creating/configuring an image.

    However, AFAIK it is not lightweight enough for my setup. Pretty same as Gentoo, I guess.

    If you can run KDE Plasma, then you should be able to run both NixOS and Gentoo.

    my learning curve will be fairly steep

    😅. Honestly, I think it’s exaggerated. But I’m only ankles deep in NixOS…

    • pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      8 hours ago

      This is a purely technical association. And in case with Atomic Desktops, it is just an option at last.

      Yeah I probably would be able running NixOS, but I think it will take a lot of time to compile big packages in Gentoo. And if I don’t compile the largest parts of the system by myself with appropriate flags for efficiency, Gentoo doesn’t make that much sense compared to Arch or Artix. I have 5.7GB of RAM (the rest is reserved by system and GPU), and I’ve seen a guy with 128GB RAM on youtube, who still used a lot of binaries because of long compilation and the inefficiency (hah) of portage. He has been running Gentoo for more than a year. I wish I knew C so I could rewrite portage to C.