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I'm a Linux user, but you can't always easily remove the random crap that gets installed. An Ubuntu server install will come with "modem manager" (wtf does that

I'm a Linux user, but you can't always easily remove the random crap that gets installed. An Ubuntu server install will come with "modem manager" (wtf does that even do?!) and a bunch of other crap which isn't exactly useful in a VM environment. Yet if you try to remove them, you'll find that it tries to remove the whole system since it depends on "ubuntu-server" or some such. Sure, you could remove that meta package and reinstall the things you actually need manually, but that's still a terrible pita. At least all this junk doesn't start up random daemons, like windows does.

deadlydose 3y ago
This sounds like an Ubuntu problem. My web server is running Debian 12 and ModemManager isn't even installed. For shiggles I installed it just so I could remove it. The extra packages it installed are libjim0.81 libmbim-glib4 libmbim-proxy libmbim-utils libqmi-glib5 libqmi-proxy libqmi-utils libqrtr-glib0 usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data and these are exactly the packages it told me I could autoremove after removing ModemManager.