Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
by ragingrobot on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:33AM
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"Is that the one that used a MySQL database on the desktop?"
It's been a few months since I gave up, but IIRC Akonadi has a few storage backends.
I was looking for a GUI mail client to replace using my various webmail based interfaces. As much as I love Plasma, KMail and its ilk were painful. Akonadi still has issues all these years later, and gave me trouble setting it up. The messages produced are less than helpful.
Once KMail was running, it was fine to use, albeit with an occasional crash, just at the wrong times so it got annoying. I stopped using it.
Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
by toyg on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:40AM
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Akonadi was an ambitious idea that was really badly implemented. I've not used KDE for ages so I have no idea what the current state of play is - I think they now disable it by default. Someone should have probably rewritten it with sqlite, back then.
Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
by popeathlete on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:16AM
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Yeah, Akonadi isn't great right now, but KMail is a very nice client.
Is that the one that used a MySQL database on the desktop? The disaster known as akonadi? That would frequently lock up requiring restarts? When I used KDE back in the day one thing I'd make sure was to remove PIM/akonadi/kmail completely and use Thunderbird or whatever else instead.