What are the packages that comes default with Linux Mint Cinnamon that I can remove without any problems.
Linux Mint comes with lots of packages installed by default to give full experience to new users. But not everyone needs everything. In my case for example, I don’t need celluloid, pix, hexchat, hypnotix, rhythmbox, LibreOffice, etc,… Those applications has their own audience and Linux Mint including them is a good thing but I personally don’t want them.
Mini Rant or QA maybe?
I searched the internet a bit for the answer, on various forums, and subreddits. And All the people who asked this question got obliterated as far as I’ve seen. The common answers are:
if you remove the applications that came installed with Mint by default, it will cause Dependency issues.
If I remove an application and the dependencies shold be removed UNLESS some other application need those dependency, right? If that’s the case, why removing packages can cause dependency issues?
Why would you want to remove essential applications like LibreOffice, pix etc. ? (this question is asked in the sense of “what sane person would want to remove those?”)
Cause why not? Maybe I like GwenView more than Pix, maybe I don’t need office applications at all. Why this even matter?
If you want don’t want Mint’s default applications, then what’s the point of using Mint? Just use something like Ubuntu server or something. People need to realize that lot of people (at least me) using Mint for it’s System management (updates, apt source list, etc…) via GUI ability. Just because I want to manage my system with ease, that doesn’t mean I need everyt applications it offers me.
I honestly feel bad for the person who asked the question in the first place. They didn’t got the answers till the very end. All they got is Criticism and it’s not constructive one.
Why this kind of behaviour even exist?
P.S.: I’m using Mint inside VM for testing purposes. I don’t want my VM to take a lot of space. That’s why I don’t need lot of applications.
In theory, you should be able to remove any high-level applications you don’t want, and you should be fine. In practice, it might not be so clean and easy.
The reason there are so many distros out there is because lots of people have different needs and wants. Mint is designed to be an easy-to-use OS out of the box, so it contains lots of default applications. The target audience of Mint are people who want this behavior.
If you want a more minimal or custom install, consider using a distro that is geared toward that (e.g., Arch, Alpine, Debian w/o desktop). If you need to run Mint specifically for testing, then it depends on what kind of testing you’re doing–if it’s for an end-user test case, you’ll probably want to leave all the default stuff on there as that’s a better representation of the target system. Otherwise you’re fine to uninstall anything you don’t want, but it’s possible that the dependency tree isn’t perfect and you might need to troubleshoot a little.
Thank You.
I want Mint’s way of updating packages, installing kernels, Adding ppa, changing apt server, etc.
It’s so easy to manage the system. But I just don’t want the extra packages like hypnotix and etc… Although, I can see why all those things were there, It’s just me.