so i upgraded to 24.11 last weekend, but had to revert back to 24.05, because ever since the upgrade some applications like steam, pavucontrol, and virtual machine manager take like 20-30 seconds to start. after some digging i found a reddit comment that suggested running
systemctl --user mask xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
which does the trick and solves the problem, but it seems like a hacky solution, and it also doesn’t solve my greeter (regreet) having this same delay as well, i tried adding it to my sway configuration for regreet but it didn’t solve the problem. has anyone else had this problem before? i already tried adding the gtk and gnome portal to extraPortals but it didn’t change anything.