I thought I'd give KDE a go since people seem to be putting a lot of effort into making it work, but at first I found it to be unusable. It would start off OK but soon it would become amazingly laggy and eventually it was impossible to even execute a command in a shell, even though the CPU load and the disc activity were both not that much.
After some research I found the problem to be
Is
After some research I found the problem to be
baloo
and after killing and disabling it everything seems to be working nicely now. It even seems to be faster than LXQT, the system I have been using for the last few years.Is
baloo
known to be a problem, or should it actually work? I was all set on abandoning KDE for good as I had to reboot to get back to a usable system once it started running.