I've just started using #i3wm and I really like it. It's superfast and configurable. Question: what will happen if I uninstall Gnome? @solene @valhalla
@Mario Sabatino @Solène :flan_hacker: is this #debian or a debian derivative? I don't think it's going to do anything unfixable: if you don't use --purge you can reinstall anything that got uninstalled and shouldn't have.
However, if you ``apt remove task-gnome-desktop`` and then ``apt autoremove``, double check what it wants to remove, as that task installs a lot of things, some of which you may still want to use, but may not have been a dependency of i3wm (the first things that come to my mind are network manager, libreoffice and maybe a browser?)
To be safe, you can manually install with an explicit ``apt install <already_installed_package>`` what you want to be sure to be keeping before doing the autoremoval.
Also, a backup would be good, of course, but that's always something good to have.
Ciao Elena. It's an Ubuntu 20.04. I understand that when logging in, if you chose to use i3wm, you're not really loading Gnome. Into i3wm you can still use some application associated with Gnome and this is not a problem.
but I confirm that in general you can run gnome-related applications inside other WMs; if you want to keep them you may have to set them as manually installed to avoid them being autoremoved after removing gnome.
also, if those applications are *very* associated with gnome, they will probably have enough dependencies that you will still keep most of the gnome libraries installed, but other than the disk space that's not an issue.
@Solène :flan_hacker: @Mario Sabatino my system started from a clean state and then I added things, rather than starting with gnome and removing things, but I believe I have a significant portion of both gnome and kde already installed as dependencies of things I use.
and wow, both task-gnome-desktop and task-kde-desktop would cause about 1GB of space to be used. however, in both cases, almost 400 MB of that are taken by libreoffice (that I don't have installed, because *reasons*)
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in reply to Mario Sabatino • •However, if you ``apt remove task-gnome-desktop`` and then ``apt autoremove``, double check what it wants to remove, as that task installs a lot of things, some of which you may still want to use, but may not have been a dependency of i3wm (the first things that come to my mind are network manager, libreoffice and maybe a browser?)
To be safe, you can manually install with an explicit ``apt install <already_installed_package>`` what you want to be sure to be keeping before doing the autoremoval.
Also, a backup would be good, of course, but that's always something good to have.
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also, if those applications are *very* associated with gnome, they will probably have enough dependencies that you will still keep most of the gnome libraries installed, but other than the disk space that's not an issue.
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and wow, both task-gnome-desktop and task-kde-desktop would cause about 1GB of space to be used. however, in both cases, almost 400 MB of that are taken by libreoffice (that I don't have installed, because *reasons*)
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