Have you thought about biting the bullet and just doing a full wipe and fresh OS install? I recently did this with a fresh, minimal Debian install, and it was so worth it.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
22 points (100.0% liked)
Linux
1253 readers
64 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
I just installed 6 months ago and I don't feel any need or desire to do a full reinstall if I can avoid it
That's such a Windows way of solving problems.
It's not. I'm constantly learning and making a mess. A fresh install every year or two keeps the house clean, and keeps me in good practice.
You learn significantly more from actually fixing the problems with your install as opposed to just constantly starting over every time. Doing it just to get rid of a couple of GNOME packages is especially not worth the trouble, considering it's a rather trivial task.
You do, or I do?
?
Try to find the Fedora/yum equivalent to
apt-get purge gnome-desktop
apt-get autoremove
A question related to this: is there a way to remove pre-installed apps on gnome? I have tried to uninstall them, but the system won’t let me.
Don't be scared if this leads to uninstallation of a meta-package.
I suppose Fedora works similar to Debian handling dependencies, thus uninstalling libgtk* should trigger removing all GNOME/GTK packages and apps.
Removing a metapackage, like it's probably gnome-desktop, usually does almost nothing.
Edit: You can reinstall the GTK apps you like to use, e.g. Firefox or LibreOffice, later, as the user config files are not going to be deleted.
Edit 2: Maybe I've misunderstood: Do you want to keep the GNOME login session an desktop environment but use KDE apps like Kate instead of gedit?
I want everything GNOME gone. Decided KDE was more my style
Then, as I said, removing libgtk2 and libgtk3, specifically, the corresponding packages containing these libraries, should trigger removing everything GNOME/GTK related.