Hello there.
I have an issue with my installation and I am out of ideas on what to do about it. I struggle with this for about 3 or 4 months. It’s not hindering me but it is annoying (you’ll see why) so I am looking for ways to fix it.
The problem is that there seems to be some sort of a problem with my installation/configuration which causes KDE to perform awfully in some scenarios:
- After logging in SDDM then the splash screen appears and it takes around 2 minutes to a fully working desktop. What is strange is that I am able to open the workspace switcher in the upper left corner and launch applications that way, however I cannot see them until KDE is finished loading. Strange markings appear on the current workspace when I do that (some blurred red text appears very quickly).
- After the launch is complete opening Dolphin is also very slow. Every time a new window opens it takes 10 seconds (it isnt a lot but it used to be very fast and open instantly).
- In Dolphin executing search freezes the app for around 30 seconds and any search string that should result in at least one item also take the same amount of time. Only when I enter some gibberish will it work fast but since nothing is being hit I assume it just does nothing.
Something that I noticed after two installations (first run) is that there was this weird notifications about akonadi migration agent that wouldn’t disappear but was gone after a restart.
This issue started appearing for me sometime in Fedora 40 installation which I tried to fix with an upgrade to F41, which didn’t help. I’ve done clean installation twice, both with encryption enabled and disabled (with a new user so it wouldn’t use the old user configuration, clean slate). Right now the encryption is enabled.
There is also an issue with sudo taking a lot of time to initialize, but I have no idea if that is related (I’ve already tried to add the hostname to the hosts file which didn’t help). Just mentioning that in case it would be connected.
Configuration of the machine:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.9-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core Processor
Memory: 61.9 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
System and home are both on the same SSD which is still relatively fresh.
Thank you!