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Disabling bloatware (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 days ago by pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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)?
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[-] hobata@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

I disabled KDE once, my life has only gotten better since then.

[-] pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

I think I'm going to start a war against my KDE setup. I can't even disable bluetooth automatically launching at startup. Well, actually, I could. I had to modify a very-down-to-the-bottom line in some config. But it's definetly not okay for such a huge DE to make you edit basic settings like this in configs. I always thought simplifying tasks like this was the reason for DEs to exist.

[-] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

What distro are you using? Fedora Plasma has a super simple way to disable bluetooth on startup. Open the Bluetooth settings and select the option to be disabled on startup. You may need bluetooth turned on for the options to display.

[-] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

Insanely strong opinions about software YOU chose to use everyday. I'd move to something else with no "bloatware" instead.

[-] pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

I chose KDE, I'm choosing to struggle with it (a very good way to learn Linux deeper btw). What's the problem?

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