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.
- How do I completely disable it forever?
- 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)?
OP, even if I personally don’t entirely agree with your sentiment. I am fully aware it is a legit one and I’m actually even sympathetic to the idea.
As others have already provided solutions to your problem, I just wanted to share https://suckless.org/philosophy/ with you. I’m pretty sure this is either were you are right now, or the logical conclusion of your trajectory.
Perhaps through sheer luck[1] the Linux systems I’ve used have always been pretty minimal.
As bloat often comes with additional attack surface, the security-sensitive will be implored to go with minimalism anyways. As such, my current distro of choice; namely secureblue, is actively engaged with debloating the system. Recently, it has even started working on ‘debloating’ the kernel. Like, why should my system autoload parts of the kernel used to drive all sorts of old and niche hardware; like remote controls etc?
Still, there are stuff that I’m not using, but I’m too lazy to hunt them down 😅.
I started on Fedora Kinoite years ago. But due to some bug at the time, the system wasn’t fully initalized. When I eventually rebased to Silverblue, I ended up with a very minimal install. Sure, it still contained stuff we might regard bloat, but it was the last thing on my mind back then. ↩︎