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)?
  • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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    2 months ago

    How exactly is it bloatware though? Not a KDE user myself, just had a look at the wiki. Seems it’s just a convenience utility to allow you to not have to enter the same things into multiple applications?

    This is VERY different from pre-installed apps in your start menu that collect and sell info about you…

    Yeah, thinking more about it, I don’t think the term “bloatware” (as it is commonly used) applies here at all.

    How do I completely disable it forever?

    To answer your question: sudo systemctl mask <servicename>.service

    The much more common disable just disables autostart; masking will point the service file at /dev/null, which makes it impossible to load or start the service, even when other services or apps (like the clock widget someone mentioned in the comments) request it.

    • pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      2 months ago

      I may appear paranoic, but it’s collecting metadata from contacts and email. Even though it does not sell anything, that’s not the thing I’d like to have running on my PC. And since I don’t even use most of the apps Akonadi is designed for, it is just wasting my CPU time and RAM space. That’s why I call it bloatware. And it’s shipped preinstalled on Fedora. Another reason is that there’s no way to manage it with KDE system settings. Why on earth I can’t manage a KDE utility with the settings of KDE? Why hiding it so deep I can’t find a bare notice of it without looking into htop or config files? It isn’t that crucial for the system to be hidden so deep.

      • Hund@feddit.nu
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        2 months ago

        And since I don’t even use most of the apps Akonadi is designed for, it is just wasting my CPU time and RAM space. That’s why I call it bloatware.

        You can’t just make up your own meanings of already established words and terms. That’s simply not how the world works.

        And if you don’t use it, why did you choose to install it in the first place?