Re:This week in KDE: Tons of UI improvements and bugfixes
by badrabbit on Saturday July 23, 2022 @04:29AM
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I stopped when it became a dependency mess. Kwallet this, avahi that and disabling things broke other things. It became too much of a burden. I love the UI better than any DE but I stick to something like openbox or enlightenment these days.
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Re:This week in KDE: Tons of UI improvements and bugfixes
by sph on Saturday July 23, 2022 @04:44AM
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I hated the whole Akonadi thing, where it used to spawn on login an whole MySQL instance to store mail and other metadata. These days with 64 GB of RAM it's not a problem, but I remember it was such a heavy piece of machinery for very little benefit.
Re:This week in KDE: Tons of UI improvements and bugfixes
by badrabbit on Saturday July 23, 2022 @07:02AM
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It wasn't just the resource usage but the "attack surface" and the comfort of knowing what is running and being able to turn things off because you don't want them. Linux was always all about that control but the philosophy seems to have been lost in favor of mimmicking Macos and Windows
Re:This week in KDE: Tons of UI improvements and bugfixes
by jraph on Saturday July 23, 2022 @08:40AM
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Akonadi used to be annoying, especially the baloo file indexer.
Nowadays, you can just turn off indexing with one checkbox. And it works quite well anyway. It got a lot better. I don't bother disabling it anymore. It does not even cross my mind. A few years ago it was mandatory. Probably also because I was using spinning drives.