iv used liux mint 20.3 for years now with the gnome 3 desktop after 20.3 its gnome 4, windows problem is it trying to be a all i one with adroid apps ,ai crap ,i installd windows 11 to set up a hardrive up for my xbox next day turnd pc on and right thare in the middel of screen bing bar you kow like android thort what the hell i ever asked for r installd it, i was gunna install mint back any way so not botherd me , and what i have heard about the next windows its just geting worse .
Here in Europe you are in another country with a foreign language if you only drive a few hundred kilometers (miles). It is common to speak more than one language. Why not learn a foreign language? It is so much fun.
Reiterating what @soulstenance said below I have no issue with language packs as I to am using LMDE 6. It maybe that the Ubuntu based Linux Mint has this problem. Being British I only had to remove 2 US and one South African language packs, all other non-British language packs were clear.
LMDE 6 doesn't have this problem, it must be an Ubuntu problem. LMDE would be the perfect distro if they included Nvidia drivers. I couldn't get Nvidia drivers working through the command line. I had to go to the Nvidia website and download from there. Works good now.
Have to disagree on this one. Believe it or not, for many people out there English is but a one of several languages they use daily, even if it's the main one on their PC. And the way to get all the langpacks and input methods you need isn't always straightforward. Not to mention that you are fighting for literal megabytes here. So yeah... As a someone who uses English, Russian and Japanese every day, I rate this video a monolingual/10.
Complaining over a half a GB of space being eaten up - wow. I get it, it's unnecessary but it's not that much space really. More annoying than anything else.
Its not a significant amount of space but I'm going to come at this from the perspective of what's the point of updating and installing things you aren't using (like alternative languages). Its more about principle than it is about the space itself.
Thanks. I have no idea if I've caused grief down the road but I've just used Synaptic to remove the Noto fonts. Seeing dozens of them in Libre Writer and Scrivener was annoying and no font manager seemed able to remove them. Well, now they've gone! No issues so far; let's see.
I have LM loaded on a Chromebook with an unupgradeable SSD of 16gb. I struggle with available storage space and I was excited to see this video. I went through and deleted all the unneeded packs. I see however that much of this has only been relocated to the archive folder. Is there a simple way to keep the archive folder clean? I read that the folder only maintains items for 30 days but I have more that 3gb of stuff in the folder and would like reclaim that space now rather than wait. Ideas?
Oh, man I'm so GLAD somebody brought this up! When I set up a Mint laptop, I TRY to remember to go get rid of all the extra languages like you did before I do that first update because boy, does it take a long time if you don't.
I find the same problem with fonts. In synaptic I research "ttf", and the result is that my system have a bunch of fonts for arabic, norasi, thai, khmeros fonts....I have to erase all this...I agree with you: if I choose my language on installation, why this languages are installed? Why this fonts? Thanks for the video...
When I looked under "libreoffice" I noticed a bunch of files for previous versions of LO, like 7.2,7.3,7.4, etc. Would most of these files be ok to remove?
i remember something worse, i downloaded 2 small flatpak apps about less than 5 megs total(both of them) but it downloads more than a gig of dependencies from flathub. i guess since the small apps required that gigs dependency then its not a bloat? the native package version only takes some dozens of megs total. along with dependencies. why do faltpak requires such a big dependency bundles? i mean in windows, the only dependency required probably merely a few MSVC redist which only 20-50megs but apply to every other apps. just dont understand why flatpak support libs must be so big.
My Debian 12.4 (Gnome) install from a live usb did the same thing. I also found that I could delete some excess fonts from the ../truetype folder. My LibreOffice Calc font selection drop down menu was enormously long at first. Now I only have what I want.
Thank you for this tip! I did recall seeing on the software updater that updates languages I was never going to use and typically took the longest in the updater... I just didn't think I could remove it as I thought it was part of the complete package. Idk, I didn't give it much thought.
Debian 12 Xfce does this as well and also includes Aspell. I also removed the Thai-terminal... Just tried out Debian 12 LXQT and it has exactly the same issue.
Thanks, installing Linux Mint next week. Good thing to know. Will the second step be necessary if I choose another alternative to LibreOffice (I don't know if you can uninstall LibreOffice, but if so... I could skip the rest of the steps right?)
I'm from Germany and I switched the language of all devices, apps, OSs etc pp to English. Sure, I miss some details here and there but it is just easier to find solutions for problems I have in English than in German - just because there is much more stuff in English than in German. Also all of the code with its prompts, commands, and functions is based on English so it's easier to remember.
I could be wrong, but it seems that's the case, as Ubuntu becomes more bloated, and is also looking to increase minimum hardware specs to be able to run it, which I feel will affect other distros based on it.
I have English, Spanish, and Mandarin. Two different keyboard layouts for Eng/Sp and one input method to change from Eng/Mandarin. I like keeping fonts so I can render things correctly, but no need for dictionaries, etc.
Same. Debian FTW! I honestly don't know why they don't drop the Ubuntu base. Is there a good reason not to use LMDE at this point? Throw together a driver manager and LMDE is golden as far as I can tell...
No Tom you missed one other huge flaw is that Mint has not dropped Ubuntu as it's base, and made Mint DE their main focus yet, as Canonical is making it harder to get the source Ubuntu iso's hiding them on a web server most will never go to, as pointed out in a recent video by Brodie Robertson.
As one who made their first computer purchase on a C64 in 1983 for the princely sum of $288, I like your screen name. That very important thing said, I totally agree on LMDE. I've played around with it on a couple different laptops, and I'm soon putting it on my Lenovo T430. Have a great day!
@orcaflotta7867 No I totally agree. It will absolutely happen once enough of the community wants it to happen. It will be quite an undertaking to switch and some rebranding I imagine but they listen to their users.
@@kpcraftster6580 I guess those you'll find in the entranched Ubuntu camp, of which Mint is already a step upwards and out. Still crap, but a nifty gateway into Linux.
Languages should be Opt in, even if i speak both French and English, does not mean i want to use my PC in french... at the install it should just let you choose the supported locals so if you do use programs or visit websites in those languages, it can display them but if you don't then installing extra stuff is kinda not needed. (then again someday people might have local translation software doing everything local in real time...)
I just checked and this is a non-issue on my LMDE 6. I chose English Canada locale and Swedish keyboard at install (I'm a language nerd, don't worry about it 😅) and that is exactly what I have. I actually had a Steam game that demanded I install the English US locale so I have that partially installed too even though I didn't want it, but that's unrelated to Linux Mint. LibreOffice also only installed US in addition to Canada and I saved a few 100KB by removing that so it wasn't much. This sounds like an Ubuntu issue to me. Maybe it's time to switch to LMDE hehe.
Yeah, i am thinking that too. This falls on ubuntu than on linux mint. That said though. By removing these lang packs can set you up for problems down the road. The whole purpose of lang packs in the first place is to accommodate worldwide. Given that mint is global is probably why. Windows is starting to slowly get into this but as of now, defaults to U.S because Windows is a U.S operating syatem. 100's of MB is nothing compared to windows. At least mint allows you to customize things. Good luck with windows not unless you use third party mod tools. Even with all the lang packs. It still pales compared to windows. In fact, mint orbits around windows and still be room for other edition of mint orbiting windows combined! Have you not seen how big windows iso's are becoming. A close to a 7GB download and thats compressed size too!
@@mariojpalomares2514 Yeah Mint or even Ubuntu isn't even in the same ballpark as Windows. I don't think these need to all be installed to accommodate worldwide though. Just keep them as options but don't install them unless requested by the user should be a no brainer.
That is INSANE! BTW, I recently created my own distro called F3OS (shorthand for The Free Family-Friendly Operating System), which is based on Debian Stable, uses the Xfce desktop environment (I do, BTW, have plans to create editions with other desktop environments), and comes with built-in web content filtering, for families as well as anyone else who wishes to have a safeguard against online temptation. I just checked Synaptic in F3OS, and no, Debian didn't do that nonsense like what happened in Mint. :-)
Wow, I had no idea! Great tutorial. This may be off-topic but isn't it time that Mint start to look for an alternative to Xfce? When you put it againt MATE there's barely a noticeable difference, those that pick Xfce are most likely in need of a lightweight DE and Xfce is not as lightweight as it used to be, I think it has to do with the switch to GTK3? I am saying this as a fan of Xfce btw. What about LXDE or something similar? I know it would probably piss off some that like Mint Xfce and prefer it over Cinnamon or MATE. I feel the Xfce Edition no longer serve a purpose. The idea of Mint's Xfce Edition is obviously about making Mint accessible for those that are on older computers.
LXqt is more current and uses the qt libraries instead of GTK, though I have no idea if that would play nice with Mint or not. Anyone who wants an ultra light system should just do vanilla Debian or something and install the desktop of their choosing. MATE and XFCE are similar in lightness I've heard but I can't say much about XFCE having not use it hardly at all. If you're using Mint, Cinnamon is the best choice in most cases, as it's their flagship desktop.
Not at all fool, People use Xfce, because of how smooth, how fast and how stable it is and how it works. They are completely different. You obviously don't know anything.
Why don't they offer "American English" for the Americas "King's English" for Europe? I could see Australian English included, but it is not necessary. Almost all forms of English fit one of these two versions very close.
Useful tips. The American stereotyping of the rest of the world, not so much. And American English - pretty much a linguistic virus as far as I'm concerned.
In case you didn't notice...this gets rid of languages we do not need. If you do not use American English...get rid of it and all the languages you don't need and keep the ones you do.
When you install it asks your Language and i use English. As someone born in England and lives in Canada i know how language and spelling and even pronunciation is different. And keyboards are setup for certain languages. It is like when you buy something and you get a manual with English and other languages because we live in a world where stuff is shipped all over the world. People in Canada are often immigrants and read stuff in their language because it is simpler. Here in Canada we have people who speak French.
Manjaro used to nag me about installing Language packs when I first installed it. In recent versions they've gotten rid of those nags. Sounds like the Mint team trying to be everybodies beginner OS out of the box. Can't blame them since they have the top recommendations everywhere for being that. They probably figure advanced users would have moved onto something more customizable like Arch or plain Debian by the time they get to "Switched To Linux Host" stage.
Yet still less bloated than windows because who knows why windows just keeps on growing in GB's. Storage is dirt cheap. Once you in the TB range this really does not matter much.
I was on NOBARA but Audio codecs had to be installed over and over again. So i went back to Mint it is popular with other pod casters. And Mint is old and older is better. New usually means bugs to iron out.
if you try to use a language that uses a different writing system or has accents like this é you will just get a bunch of ???? because it only supports pure ascii because Unicode is bloatware and also spyware. and most Linux users are from places like Amsterdam or Oslo and hate their own languages .
It would be easier to remove all those packages from the terminal by using a smart regular expression. Of course then you need to know how to do that but it probably is worth it to learn it and that way not have to use the much slower GUI all the time for these kind of tasks. I have nothing against using the GUI but in some cases it takes much more time and then I recommend using the terminal.
I mentioned the exact same ting a few days ago in my video at th-cam.com/video/WNOw3puQPIc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=l-XNp__HffK2vK_n&t=1281 I do think that "apply system wide" does influence the office packages, but I am not sure (I doubt) it removes the just removed. I am still not fully sure what "apply system wide" does :/ One thing that mint does very well, is that you can easily change the time format from American to British, while keeping the same interface and stuff. Also installing input methods for Asian keyboards is totally 1st class on mint! Mint does languages well. But yeah... There could be some better attempt of managing and possibly removing some of these other packages as well.
WOW. Did you really want to lose all your English speaking audience like AUS, UK, CAN & NZ etc!? :o Especially when US is Not the real and original English but just a variation & localisation!! I think we should all clean out our US libraries now to get rid of that strange spelling inc. Z's instead of S's etc! 👎😠
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Hiya Tom...you will be glad to know that LMDE does not suffer from the same problem.
Have to admit when looking into the move from windows to Linux this channel sort of helped make up my mind, it's been mint ever since.
iv used liux mint 20.3 for years now with the gnome 3 desktop after 20.3 its gnome 4, windows problem is it trying to be a all i one with adroid apps ,ai crap ,i installd windows 11 to set up a hardrive up for my xbox next day turnd pc on and right thare in the middel of screen bing bar you kow like android thort what the hell i ever asked for r installd it, i was gunna install mint back any way so not botherd me , and what i have heard about the next windows its just geting worse .
Here in Europe you are in another country with a foreign language if you only drive a few hundred kilometers (miles). It is common to speak more than one language. Why not learn a foreign language? It is so much fun.
Reiterating what @soulstenance said below I have no issue with language packs as I to am using LMDE 6. It maybe that the Ubuntu based Linux Mint has this problem. Being British I only had to remove 2 US and one South African language packs, all other non-British language packs were clear.
LMDE 6 doesn't have this problem, it must be an Ubuntu problem. LMDE would be the perfect distro if they included Nvidia drivers. I couldn't get Nvidia drivers working through the command line. I had to go to the Nvidia website and download from there. Works good now.
Have to disagree on this one. Believe it or not, for many people out there English is but a one of several languages they use daily, even if it's the main one on their PC. And the way to get all the langpacks and input methods you need isn't always straightforward. Not to mention that you are fighting for literal megabytes here.
So yeah... As a someone who uses English, Russian and Japanese every day, I rate this video a monolingual/10.
A lot of the Linux users are from the Netherlands or Scandinavia and hate their own language and insult those who don't know English .
Complaining over a half a GB of space being eaten up - wow. I get it, it's unnecessary but it's not that much space really. More annoying than anything else.
Its not a significant amount of space but I'm going to come at this from the perspective of what's the point of updating and installing things you aren't using (like alternative languages). Its more about principle than it is about the space itself.
Zackerly! It's about doing the right thing.
TY so much, that was a lot of crap I didn't need! Thumbs up man!
Thank's for that heads up Tom,I have checked LMDE and that does not have the same problem.
Thanks. I have no idea if I've caused grief down the road but I've just used Synaptic to remove the Noto fonts. Seeing dozens of them in Libre Writer and Scrivener was annoying and no font manager seemed able to remove them. Well, now they've gone! No issues so far; let's see.
I have LM loaded on a Chromebook with an unupgradeable SSD of 16gb. I struggle with available storage space and I was excited to see this video. I went through and deleted all the unneeded packs. I see however that much of this has only been relocated to the archive folder. Is there a simple way to keep the archive folder clean? I read that the folder only maintains items for 30 days but I have more that 3gb of stuff in the folder and would like reclaim that space now rather than wait. Ideas?
Oh, man I'm so GLAD somebody brought this up! When I set up a Mint laptop, I TRY to remember to go get rid of all the extra languages like you did before I do that first update because boy, does it take a long time if you don't.
I find the same problem with fonts. In synaptic I research "ttf", and the result is that my system have a bunch of fonts for arabic, norasi, thai, khmeros fonts....I have to erase all this...I agree with you: if I choose my language on installation, why this languages are installed? Why this fonts? Thanks for the video...
fyi, This isn't a problem with LMDE
At one time, we had a choice to refuse language packs. Now its baked in to the distro. Lucky for me most of my Drives are 1 TB, plenty of space lol
The same goes for fonts. Eastern fonts can also be left out if no Eastern language is selected for installation
When I looked under "libreoffice" I noticed a bunch of files for previous versions of LO, like 7.2,7.3,7.4, etc. Would most of these files be ok to remove?
i remember something worse, i downloaded 2 small flatpak apps about less than 5 megs total(both of them) but it downloads more than a gig of dependencies from flathub. i guess since the small apps required that gigs dependency then its not a bloat? the native package version only takes some dozens of megs total. along with dependencies. why do faltpak requires such a big dependency bundles? i mean in windows, the only dependency required probably merely a few MSVC redist which only 20-50megs but apply to every other apps. just dont understand why flatpak support libs must be so big.
But, why?
My Debian 12.4 (Gnome) install from a live usb did the same thing. I also found that I could delete some excess fonts from the ../truetype folder.
My LibreOffice Calc font selection drop down menu was enormously long at first. Now I only have what I want.
500mb doesn't seem much by today's standards. But it's much for text data.
@@burgerkingen Fair. Recently I freed 20 gigabytes of free space by deleting megabyte-sized folders in AppData.
9:57 "Sprechen Sie deutsch?"
I can understand your german very well, good job! :D
Thank you for this tip! I did recall seeing on the software updater that updates languages I was never going to use and typically took the longest in the updater... I just didn't think I could remove it as I thought it was part of the complete package. Idk, I didn't give it much thought.
Debian 12 Xfce does this as well and also includes Aspell. I also removed the Thai-terminal... Just tried out Debian 12 LXQT and it has exactly the same issue.
Thanks, installing Linux Mint next week. Good thing to know. Will the second step be necessary if I choose another alternative to LibreOffice (I don't know if you can uninstall LibreOffice, but if so... I could skip the rest of the steps right?)
I'm from Germany and I switched the language of all devices, apps, OSs etc pp to English. Sure, I miss some details here and there but it is just easier to find solutions for problems I have in English than in German - just because there is much more stuff in English than in German. Also all of the code with its prompts, commands, and functions is based on English so it's easier to remember.
When i go on social media i get posts in other languages. I can have them translated to English.
I'm on LMDE6 and I do not get the extra english language versions. Ubuntu doing it?
I could be wrong, but it seems that's the case, as Ubuntu becomes more bloated, and is also looking to increase minimum hardware specs to be able to run it, which I feel will affect other distros based on it.
It does appear that way.
I have English, Spanish, and Mandarin. Two different keyboard layouts for Eng/Sp and one input method to change from Eng/Mandarin. I like keeping fonts so I can render things correctly, but no need for dictionaries, etc.
especially each individual dialect of the language lol
anyone in lmde facing this problem? cuzz I'm on lmde I didn't have any other unwanted lang packages installed on my pc so lamde is good ?
Same. Debian FTW! I honestly don't know why they don't drop the Ubuntu base. Is there a good reason not to use LMDE at this point? Throw together a driver manager and LMDE is golden as far as I can tell...
No Tom you missed one other huge flaw is that Mint has not dropped Ubuntu as it's base, and made Mint DE their main focus yet, as Canonical is making it harder to get the source Ubuntu iso's hiding them on a web server most will never go to, as pointed out in a recent video by Brodie Robertson.
As one who made their first computer purchase on a C64 in 1983 for the princely sum of $288, I like your screen name. That very important thing said, I totally agree on LMDE. I've played around with it on a couple different laptops, and I'm soon putting it on my Lenovo T430. Have a great day!
This annoys me a lot.
Glad I'm not the only one. :)
Thanks for the video!
And naiive gurly me always thought Mint's biggest problem was its Ubuntu base. :/
Nah, mint's biggest problem is its blind sycophants
@orcaflotta7867 No I totally agree. It will absolutely happen once enough of the community wants it to happen. It will be quite an undertaking to switch and some rebranding I imagine but they listen to their users.
@@kpcraftster6580 I guess those you'll find in the entranched Ubuntu camp, of which Mint is already a step upwards and out. Still crap, but a nifty gateway into Linux.
Languages should be Opt in, even if i speak both French and English, does not mean i want to use my PC in french... at the install it should just let you choose the supported locals so if you do use programs or visit websites in those languages, it can display them but if you don't then installing extra stuff is kinda not needed. (then again someday people might have local translation software doing everything local in real time...)
I just checked and this is a non-issue on my LMDE 6. I chose English Canada locale and Swedish keyboard at install (I'm a language nerd, don't worry about it 😅) and that is exactly what I have. I actually had a Steam game that demanded I install the English US locale so I have that partially installed too even though I didn't want it, but that's unrelated to Linux Mint. LibreOffice also only installed US in addition to Canada and I saved a few 100KB by removing that so it wasn't much. This sounds like an Ubuntu issue to me. Maybe it's time to switch to LMDE hehe.
Yeah, i am thinking that too. This falls on ubuntu than on linux mint. That said though. By removing these lang packs can set you up for problems down the road. The whole purpose of lang packs in the first place is to accommodate worldwide. Given that mint is global is probably why. Windows is starting to slowly get into this but as of now, defaults to U.S because Windows is a U.S operating syatem. 100's of MB is nothing compared to windows. At least mint allows you to customize things. Good luck with windows not unless you use third party mod tools.
Even with all the lang packs. It still pales compared to windows. In fact, mint orbits around windows and still be room for other edition of mint orbiting windows combined! Have you not seen how big windows iso's are becoming. A close to a 7GB download and thats compressed size too!
@@mariojpalomares2514 Yeah Mint or even Ubuntu isn't even in the same ballpark as Windows. I don't think these need to all be installed to accommodate worldwide though. Just keep them as options but don't install them unless requested by the user should be a no brainer.
That is INSANE! BTW, I recently created my own distro called F3OS (shorthand for The Free Family-Friendly Operating System), which is based on Debian Stable, uses the Xfce desktop environment (I do, BTW, have plans to create editions with other desktop environments), and comes with built-in web content filtering, for families as well as anyone else who wishes to have a safeguard against online temptation. I just checked Synaptic in F3OS, and no, Debian didn't do that nonsense like what happened in Mint. :-)
Is there a shell script that can be created for this..
Writers would find these language packs useful.
Thanks, totally agree that this bloat should not be there. Same situation with Noto fonts, which clog up the menus of every app. Totally not needed.
Wow, I had no idea! Great tutorial. This may be off-topic but isn't it time that Mint start to look for an alternative to Xfce? When you put it againt MATE there's barely a noticeable difference, those that pick Xfce are most likely in need of a lightweight DE and Xfce is not as lightweight as it used to be, I think it has to do with the switch to GTK3?
I am saying this as a fan of Xfce btw. What about LXDE or something similar? I know it would probably piss off some that like Mint Xfce and prefer it over Cinnamon or MATE. I feel the Xfce Edition no longer serve a purpose. The idea of Mint's Xfce Edition is obviously about making Mint accessible for those that are on older computers.
Yes I know you could install LXDE yourself, but it would MOST likely not look as good as if it would if the Mint team customized it.
LXqt is more current and uses the qt libraries instead of GTK, though I have no idea if that would play nice with Mint or not. Anyone who wants an ultra light system should just do vanilla Debian or something and install the desktop of their choosing. MATE and XFCE are similar in lightness I've heard but I can't say much about XFCE having not use it hardly at all. If you're using Mint, Cinnamon is the best choice in most cases, as it's their flagship desktop.
Not at all fool, People use Xfce, because of how smooth, how fast and how stable it is and how it works. They are completely different. You obviously don't know anything.
You know very little of what you are talking about XFCE is very widely used in Linux. Might even be the most used.
I think you should change your name to @Dailyidiot.
Thank you for this, keep it up! ☺️
Why don't they offer
"American English" for the Americas
"King's English" for Europe?
I could see Australian English included, but it is not necessary.
Almost all forms of English fit one of these two versions very close.
Useful tips. The American stereotyping of the rest of the world, not so much.
And American English - pretty much a linguistic virus as far as I'm concerned.
In case you didn't notice...this gets rid of languages we do not need. If you do not use American English...get rid of it and all the languages you don't need and keep the ones you do.
When you install it asks your Language and i use English. As someone born in England and lives in Canada i know how language and spelling and even pronunciation is different. And keyboards are setup for certain languages. It is like when you buy something and you get a manual with English and other languages because we live in a world where stuff is shipped all over the world. People in Canada are often immigrants and read stuff in their language because it is simpler. Here in Canada we have people who speak French.
Manjaro used to nag me about installing Language packs when I first installed it. In recent versions they've gotten rid of those nags. Sounds like the Mint team trying to be everybodies beginner OS out of the box. Can't blame them since they have the top recommendations everywhere for being that. They probably figure advanced users would have moved onto something more customizable like Arch or plain Debian by the time they get to "Switched To Linux Host" stage.
I use Bleachbit after every install. It cleans unneeded languages right out.
I do the same thing and it's pretty satisfying seeing that one big lump sum of reclaimed space lol.
I've heard bad thing about BleachBit.
Yep, bleach it is the first thing which I install. In the old days when ma root partition was about 40 gigs I had to keep things clean as possible.
Yet still less bloated than windows because who knows why windows just keeps on growing in GB's. Storage is dirt cheap. Once you in the TB range this really does not matter much.
Also love the use of the Monty Python style circus music in the video 😂
I was on NOBARA but Audio codecs had to be installed over and over again. So i went back to Mint it is popular with other pod casters. And Mint is old and older is better. New usually means bugs to iron out.
if you try to use a language that uses a different writing system or has accents like this é you will just get a bunch of ???? because it only supports pure ascii because Unicode is bloatware and also spyware. and most Linux users are from places like Amsterdam or Oslo and hate their own languages .
thanks
It would be easier to remove all those packages from the terminal by using a smart regular expression. Of course then you need to know how to do that but it probably is worth it to learn it and that way not have to use the much slower GUI all the time for these kind of tasks. I have nothing against using the GUI but in some cases it takes much more time and then I recommend using the terminal.
I mentioned the exact same ting a few days ago in my video at
th-cam.com/video/WNOw3puQPIc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=l-XNp__HffK2vK_n&t=1281
I do think that "apply system wide" does influence the office packages, but I am not sure (I doubt) it removes the just removed. I am still not fully sure what "apply system wide" does :/
One thing that mint does very well, is that you can easily change the time format from American to British, while keeping the same interface and stuff. Also installing input methods for Asian keyboards is totally 1st class on mint! Mint does languages well. But yeah...
There could be some better attempt of managing and possibly removing some of these other packages as well.
Come to MX Linux with KDE Plasma~ It's great! 🤪
Not sure what the big deal is really. Part of the course for new to Linux distorts
Storage is so cheap these days
omgomgomgomg the world is gonna end its half a GIGABYTE
I just get a bigger SSD.
Ga is probably gaelic
who cares with 1 GB ssd, i never run of even 50% space
Mint won't even install to such a small drive haha. 😂 (I know you meant "TB" but I had to.)
WOW. Did you really want to lose all your English speaking audience like AUS, UK, CAN & NZ etc!? :o
Especially when US is Not the real and original English but just a variation & localisation!!
I think we should all clean out our US libraries now to get rid of that strange spelling inc. Z's instead of S's etc! 👎😠
LOL. I can't see how deleted an uneeded dialect on my computer causes the rest of the world not not be able to use them on their system.
Русский язык бы оставил, пригодится 😊