KISSmyOS, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

My next project is to slim down my Gnome desktop installation, but I guess this is quite common in the Debian community.

This is pretty easy on Debian.

• Uncheck all tasksel entries during initial installation
• Reboot
  sudo apt install gnome-shell gnome-terminal nautilus
• Reboot again.

It’ll boot right into a fully functional Gnome desktop and hardly anything else. The only extra software this installs are yelp, gnome-shell-extension-prefs and network-manager-gnome. Uninstall them with sudo apt purge and sudo apt autoremove --purge if you don’t need them. sudo apt install cups if you need printing and remove your wifi device from /etc/network/devices to let network-manager-gnome handle wifi if you use it.

Your system will require 2.8GB of disk space.