How to improve KDE plasma ?

[louson]

I find KDE plasma quite slow. I've tried XFCE and got a much smoother experience. Unfortunately it requires a lot of work to get a comfy environment.

It's my first experience on KDE and I have not found similar posts on the forum (sorry if it does). So here is a thread to share tips how to improve the KDE plasma experience, what service can be disabled / removed ?

Shall I disable accessibility, kde connect and so on ? (how ?)

[KC9UDX]

Well, I can't speak for the PineTab. But otherwise how I usually speed up KDE is by
1) starting it as a "failsafe" session
2) turning off desktop effects
3) killing akonadi (this gives mixed results. Sometimes huge, sometimes nothing.)
4) turning off strigi (if it's even there)

[Kevin Kofler]

Strigi is long dead. Baloo is what KDE uses for indexing now.