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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    2 hours ago

    but I think it will take a lot of time to compile big packages in Gentoo.

    Probably yeah.

    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 don’t know if that’s the case. Immolo, AKA the Gentoo guy on YT, tried compiling Firefox for speed. But the results weren’t what you’d expect. Granted, efficiency =/= speed. So YMMV.

    I have 5.7GB of RAM (the rest is reserved by system and GPU)

    That is plenty. Sure, it’s not comfortable or anything. But it’s fine for strictly running your OS without delving into stuff like VMs, high-end gaming etc. Perhaps you might even pick/prefer tools/software that are known to be less bloat~y.

    who still used a lot of binaries because of long compilation and the inefficiency (hah) of portage.

    So, if what you desire is simply “Do what I want as fast as possible.”, then I agree that compiling is a no-go. But, the control gained on Gentoo by virtue of the extensive options that are provided through compilation is no joke.

    Hence, I got to ask, what is it that you ultimately desire?

    Btw, FWIW, if speed and/or efficiency is more important than control. And, if control is (mostly) only desired to benefit speed and/or efficiency, then perhaps the likes of Alpine and Void should also be considered for the long-term.