Why do I have kworker on Budgie and how do I get rid of it?

ARM Budgie
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I’ve kept all my gnome/gtk DEs KDE-free in my linux journey (I have massive trauma with baloo a decade ago that I’ve never recovered from). I know many Plasma users keep their own rigs gnome/gtk-free…

RULED OUT:

two flatpak browsers

any AUR install because I had the same in Cinnamon.

I’m getting the feeling its a process used by the Kernel in a Wayland environment and I can’t get rid of it.

Is all that ^^^ correct?

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I’ve got a ton of kworker processes running, running Hyprland here. If you check out the list, almost are are directly related to btrfs.

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kworker is a linux-kernel process. It has nothing to do with KDE or Wayland.

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I’ve never seen that in my gnome-system-monitor, ever, in the last 10 years. Not even Cinnamon which I used last. Nor do I have BRTFS.

There’s something askew here.

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That’s possible. But they are kernel threads, not userland stuff that can be uninstalled/easily killed.

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Gotcha.

Thanks for your reply and also to @ajgringo619

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The kworker threads aren’t strictly tied to BTRFS - they have IP, Ext4, encryption, and many other kernel-level attachments.

Replied to the wrong person. Sorry.