Hi there, I just got myself manjaro KDE and I am wondering is it possible to get a very slim version of manjaro without any unnecessary packages and applications? I installed manjaro and it came with apps like Qt Assistant Qt Designer Qt Linguist Qt DbusViewer Avahi SSH Server Browser Avahi Z…

I’m not so sure that this is bloatware. After all it was your choice to want to use KDE. I myself use Xfce - just because I don’t like the way KDE works and is configured. It is not much lighter, if at all. You could also go for Openbox as a window manager - there is an Openbox Edition of Manjar…

Some of them are necessary dependencies for KDE or other programs so better leave it alone. You can hide them by right click in menu :wink:

Try the Architect ISO. Although, if you stick to KDE i believe you will still end with the Qt tools as they’re part of the core qt5 packages AFAIK.

[image] anon33601770: If you don’t need Avahi, you can deinstall it. Better no, it’s required by cups and some parts of KDE.

ok - thanks for that correction and that’s what I meant/intended to say It’s generally a bad idea to try to rip out parts of the functionality of a DE like KDE in order to safe some space or somehow make it lighter. I’ll just end up crippled in ways you only discover much later - when you already…

I have KDE Neon (Ubuntu based distro) on my other machine and it does not have all those Qt applications or Avahi ones. So I am not sure if those are essential for KDE

the inter-dependencies between parts are different between Arch/Manjaro and Ubuntu/Debian - because the packages functionality is split in a different, perhaps more granular way not directly comparable for instance, as @Tomek said: if you remove Avahi - cups might not work - or not fully These m…

I’ve read rapidly, maybe it was already said but there are minimal Manjaro isos. Ex: Downloading File /kde/20.2.1/minimal - Manjaro Linux - OSDN

Yeah That’s what I was gonna suggest, the minimal ISO still have some applications installed but it is a good start for a lighter system (disk space wise, not really resources wise), or even the Architect ISO to build your own OS from scratch, but that’s already been suggested. Also I suggest NOT to…

[image] Falav: minimal Manjaro isos Without having looked at it more closely (use Xfce at the moment anyway): what is not included in the minimal ISO? Can not find any documentation. If I should stumble upon KDE again sometime, I might prefer to use the minimal ISO.

Is there a very basic version of Manjaro?

Non-technical Questions

Tomek 17 February 2021 20:09 13

I’m shamelessly referring to my answer