Post #3442791

2026-06-28 07:02 UTC

A user that want a minimal environment installs a modern complete and featurefull entire desktop environment and then complains that it’s too bloated, at five only on Lemmy. What is this, reddit nowadays? /S Anyway, you should uninstall plasma and switch to any of the many more basic Linux GUI environment that better suit you needs, that the magic of Linux after all, nobody forces you to use what you don’t like or don’t approve on your own machine

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@pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-28 07:36

Modern DE ≠ unnecessary metadata-collecting services which you can not control within the DE interface. I do not want a “minimal” environment, I want one that looks pretty and is adjusted straightforwardly. Background metadata syncing has nothing to do with graphical environment. I understand that KDE is a whole ecosystem, but a service like this, shipping together with the DE, unreachable through normal settings interface is not what I’m expecting from a DE. Especially from such a modern and featurefull one. If I wanted to manage my DE with text configs, I would go for hyprland or something like this. It’s the issue with KDE that it doesn’t implement accessible configuration options for certain components. Hereby I’m not saying that KDE is totally bad. My main complaint isn’t the existence of Akonadi by itself, some people I’ll hardly ever meet in person would find it’s functionality extremely useful for a reason. But the fact it is uncontrollable with any KDE settings is dissapointing. The actual magic of Linux here is that I can still find a text config and disable anything I don’t need there. Without ditching a whole DE because of a couple of things I don’t like. PS. I have never been on reddit.

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