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My personal fix Ubuntu: Be careful, this is pretty rude and may break stuff - it is also not complete but some dependencies are too entangled. Only geoclue and

by nisa 13y ago

My personal fix Ubuntu: Be careful, this is pretty rude and may break stuff - it is also not complete but some dependencies are too entangled. Only geoclue and indicator-datetime still annoy me. The idea to poll the internet regulary to check for the timezone of the machine is beyond me. apt-get purge ubuntuone* # I don't use it apt-get purge unity-lens-music unity-lens-video unity-lens-photos # I don't need the integration apt-get purge friends* # I don't use this either apt-get purge telepathy-logger telepathy-indicator telepathy-salut # pidgin is enough for me apt-get purge unity-scope-musicstores unity-scope-openclipart # No need for that in Unity apt-get purge oneconf # I don't want to sync my settings apt-get purge empathy # pidgin works fine apt-get purge software-center* # synaptic is enough apt-get purge evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-goa evolution-calendar-factory # thunderbird and lightning for me apt-get purge unity-scopes-runner unity-webapps-common xul-ext-unity xul-ext-websites-integration # my browser is enough - no integration for me apt-get --purge autoremove apt-get install pidgin synaptic Shrinks RSS from 622MB to ~400MB on my system.

csmuk 13y ago
My personal one: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M Then I go and find another distribution that doesn't treat its users like cattle. Ubuntu, after shuttleworth being an asshat to the community and the whole amazon and NIH Mir and upstart crap, is now the Ryanair of Linux distributions. incidentally, don't type the above.
- tzury 13y ago
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  - csmuk 13y ago
    Thanks for making it even more obvious :)
sandGorgon 13y ago
here's mine - http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ It removes Unity and switches to gnome-shell, removes nautilus and other stuff and replaces it with nemo, geany, etc. I do have some additional tweaks to improve wifi, etc. but the base install brings my RSS with firefox (I consider that a minimum) to about 500 mb on 12.04
- nisa 13y ago
  I'm actually quite happy with Ubuntu and Unity. There are some annoying bugs and I've switched to KDE recently but Unity is overall fine in my opinion. I'd always take Unity over Gnome. But well let's not start this discussion. To each his own.. I just don't like all the Canonical addons I don't use. So I remove them. Regarding swap compression: I'm happy with zcache¹. zramswap is out of date and buggy for me (I'm not exactly sure here). There is also zswap². I'm running Linux 3.11 To enable zcache edit /etc/default/grub and add zcache to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT To enable zswap add zswap.enable=1 Both can't be running at the same time. 1: http://lwn.net/Articles/397574/ http://lwn.net/Articles/397574/ 2: http://lwn.net/Articles/528817/ http://lwn.net/Articles/528817/
  - sandGorgon 13y ago
    thanks for this! Just removed zram-config and updated guide.
- rodolphoarruda 13y ago
  What's wrong with Nautilus? I'm just curious.
  - pritambaral 13y ago
    GNOME (the devs, not the libraries or shell) is what's wrong with nautilus. They kept removing useful features. That was the very reason why Nemo was forked in the first place.
    - 13y ago
yownie 13y ago
This is great! It's nice to know there's others out there ripping out unknown unity shit too! Do you have any idea what the following do and if they can be removed easily also ? goa-daemon, zeitgeist, mission-control, bamfdaemon
- nisa 13y ago
  bamfdaemon is quite important I think. It is responsible to coordinate windows and unity icons with .desktop files. zeitgeist takes care of your used documents and applications?. I tried to get rid of it but the dependencies here are quite entangled and it's useful to have often used applications and documents at hand in Unity. goa is GNOME online accounts. The dubious idea to connect your online account with your desktop. Some like it. Not sure how to get rid of it. mission-control is probably part of the telepathy framework. The idea behind telepathy is probably pretty nice. However there is no OTR for telepathy and I'm happy using pidgin. It's probably safe to remove along the rest of telepathy if you don't need it. It's a shame that modern desktop Linux has no decent manpages for most of this stuff. If you want to learn something about your system install apt-file and use apt-cache or Google to learn about all the stuff that is running.
  - yownie 13y ago
    "It's a shame that modern desktop Linux has no decent manpages for most of this stuff." I completely agree and double so for things that destroy a running system because of lack of documentation. In some ways Unity has really jumped the shark on the good aspects that ubuntu was bringing. I wonder if anyone from the debian project has considered rolling their own Unity version with all the crapola ripped out. Now that's a DE I would start using in a heartbeat.
- sandGorgon 13y ago
  I have found that most of the complaints about Gnome-Shell being bloated comes from installing it on top of a desktop running Unity - which has a whole bunch of stuff running in the background. Removing Unity and installing Gnome (which is far more configurable because of http://extensions.gnome.org http://extensions.gnome.org) has turned out to be really lean for me.
davexunit 13y ago
Just use Debian.
philjackson 13y ago
apt-get purge friends :(
- nisa 13y ago
  It's used for social media accounts. I don't really use social media and and I don't use the dash in a way that I expect social media. I still have friends through ;)
ewzimm 13y ago
If you are using 12.04, you can easily switch to a completely free Trisquel 6, which is based on 12.04 and compatible with PPAs and other software designed for Ubuntu. http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/migrate-ubuntu-trisquel-without-reinstalling http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/migrate-ubuntu-trisquel-without...

by nisa 13y ago

csmuk 13y ago

My personal one: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M Then I go and find another distribution that doesn't treat its users like cattle. Ubuntu, after shuttleworth being an asshat to the community and the whole amazon and NIH Mir and upstart crap, is now the Ryanair of Linux distributions. incidentally, don't type the above.

tzury 13y ago
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * !!! ALERT !!! Do not type or paste the above, unless you wish to destroy your partition! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
- csmuk 13y ago
  Thanks for making it even more obvious :)

sandGorgon 13y ago

here's mine - http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ It removes Unity and switches to gnome-shell, removes nautilus and other stuff and replaces it with nemo, geany, etc. I do have some additional tweaks to improve wifi, etc. but the base install brings my RSS with firefox (I consider that a minimum) to about 500 mb on 12.04

nisa 13y ago
I'm actually quite happy with Ubuntu and Unity. There are some annoying bugs and I've switched to KDE recently but Unity is overall fine in my opinion. I'd always take Unity over Gnome. But well let's not start this discussion. To each his own.. I just don't like all the Canonical addons I don't use. So I remove them. Regarding swap compression: I'm happy with zcache¹. zramswap is out of date and buggy for me (I'm not exactly sure here). There is also zswap². I'm running Linux 3.11 To enable zcache edit /etc/default/grub and add zcache to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT To enable zswap add zswap.enable=1 Both can't be running at the same time. 1: http://lwn.net/Articles/397574/ http://lwn.net/Articles/397574/ 2: http://lwn.net/Articles/528817/ http://lwn.net/Articles/528817/
- sandGorgon 13y ago
  thanks for this! Just removed zram-config and updated guide.
rodolphoarruda 13y ago
What's wrong with Nautilus? I'm just curious.
- pritambaral 13y ago
  GNOME (the devs, not the libraries or shell) is what's wrong with nautilus. They kept removing useful features. That was the very reason why Nemo was forked in the first place.
  - 13y ago

yownie 13y ago

This is great! It's nice to know there's others out there ripping out unknown unity shit too! Do you have any idea what the following do and if they can be removed easily also ? goa-daemon, zeitgeist, mission-control, bamfdaemon

nisa 13y ago
bamfdaemon is quite important I think. It is responsible to coordinate windows and unity icons with .desktop files. zeitgeist takes care of your used documents and applications?. I tried to get rid of it but the dependencies here are quite entangled and it's useful to have often used applications and documents at hand in Unity. goa is GNOME online accounts. The dubious idea to connect your online account with your desktop. Some like it. Not sure how to get rid of it. mission-control is probably part of the telepathy framework. The idea behind telepathy is probably pretty nice. However there is no OTR for telepathy and I'm happy using pidgin. It's probably safe to remove along the rest of telepathy if you don't need it. It's a shame that modern desktop Linux has no decent manpages for most of this stuff. If you want to learn something about your system install apt-file and use apt-cache or Google to learn about all the stuff that is running.
- yownie 13y ago
  "It's a shame that modern desktop Linux has no decent manpages for most of this stuff." I completely agree and double so for things that destroy a running system because of lack of documentation. In some ways Unity has really jumped the shark on the good aspects that ubuntu was bringing. I wonder if anyone from the debian project has considered rolling their own Unity version with all the crapola ripped out. Now that's a DE I would start using in a heartbeat.
sandGorgon 13y ago
I have found that most of the complaints about Gnome-Shell being bloated comes from installing it on top of a desktop running Unity - which has a whole bunch of stuff running in the background. Removing Unity and installing Gnome (which is far more configurable because of http://extensions.gnome.org http://extensions.gnome.org) has turned out to be really lean for me.

davexunit 13y ago

Just use Debian.

philjackson 13y ago

apt-get purge friends :(

nisa 13y ago
It's used for social media accounts. I don't really use social media and and I don't use the dash in a way that I expect social media. I still have friends through ;)

ewzimm 13y ago

If you are using 12.04, you can easily switch to a completely free Trisquel 6, which is based on 12.04 and compatible with PPAs and other software designed for Ubuntu. http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/migrate-ubuntu-trisquel-without-reinstalling http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/migrate-ubuntu-trisquel-without...