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Disabling bloatware
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Again, this syncing service has nothing to do with providing a graphical environment. Its functionality has a different purpose.
Disabling this particular service can not break the whole desktop environment. It is simply disabling some additional features, that are absolutely not crucial for the system's operation. As far as I can tell, simply re-enabling this service brings the features back, it is an easily reversible action, so there is no reason to hide it in order to prevent breaking by an unexperienced user.
If you open any article on Linux DEs comparison, KDE Plasma will be mentioned as offering extensible customization.
My point against Akonadi is that it is hard to disable for no serious reason. Whether you use it's features or not, you get it running in the background, and you don't have a normal option to manage it.
Thank you for mentioning the indexer daemon, I will investigate if I need it or it is superfluous for me.
I suggest you open a ticket on akonadi or plasma settings to add that option. That would be a good addition I am always for more settings....
But no, plasma is indeed not in the ballpark of highly customizable de. Maybe more than gnome, but the bar is really low
AFAIK, anything more customizable than KDE relies heavy on text configs and scripts. Another level both in customization options and knowledge required. I will come up to that eventually, but for users, who are not ready for such way of configuring, KDE will stay the most customizeable option.