Minimal Installation

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Jack Flitton
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Since Trisquel 9.0 will presumably be based on Ubuntu 18.04, I'm wondering if there will be a minimal install option, ie; web browser and basic utilities only. I'm very new to Trisquel and while it is a great OS, it took a while to uninstall the packages I didn't need which would end up breaking something in the system and so now I just use the menu editor to hide the programs i dont want but i'd just rather them gone. I'd also like to get other people's opinions on whether they prefer a full OS or a minimal one. Thanks.

loldier
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We should care more about bloat but I'm not sure that Ubuntu's minimal installation reduces bloat much. It only cuts some 300 MB off the full installation.

An amateur is supposed to not know what he/she needs, so they include a lot of stuff. They (developers) believe that it's more complicated to install something they (amateurs) need than keep something that they (amateurs) are not aware of.

Netinstall is the thing to try.

Jack Flitton
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Prior to using Trisquel, I used Fedora 28 on a ThinkPad X240. It only included a browser, basic utilities and the software center which was great and saved me from un-installing the rubbish I didn't want. This was just a default install as they don't have a minimal install option. I think this is how most modern distros should be.

hack and hack
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Joined: 04/02/2015

You used Fedora 28, which comes with Gnome Shell (not considering the spins, akin to Trisquel mini)? That's far from minimal or lightweight.

Anyway, not many solutions :
either learn how to make a minimal install (best solution, there must be a tutorial around the web), or maybe easier, install Trisquel mini and remove software from synaptic.
There's probably a way to list only the removable software.