To be honest I am quite happy about this decision, GIMP is a great package but I think a lot of people don’t use it. I, for one, don’t use my Ubuntu machine for any kind of graphical work and have no need for this. Another package I wouldn’t mind seeing removed is OpenOffice.
Maybe there should be an option in the installer which asks you what application you wish to install for regular tasks like office work or photo management/editing, with the almighty option: NONE.
We already have options like this in the alternative installer, but I would like to see a user-friendly menu to select these types of packages in the LiveCD as well. My main problem with Linux is that a lot of distro’s seem bloated. Sure, they don’t take too much diskspace, but I know that it could be even less. Sure, we have harddrive space to spare these days but it can be a bit frustrating to have some of these huge packages installed by default and not being able to remove them either (Gnome seems to rely on parts of OpenOffice and Gimp, from what I remember..)
Another bunch of packages we could do without are the default Gnome games..
A lot of distro’s seem to want to show off how complete Linux is, but it takes more time to properly uninstall all this software as it does to install it. Another reason to give the option is that it would save a lot of time to install the distro, considering Gimp and OpenOffice are pretty big packages.
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