The title’s kinda clickbait, they’re removing the ‘Full’ option and adding a choose your own apps dialogue to the ‘Minimal’ (and now only) option, and installs the selected apps over the internet. This reduces ISO size since the apps aren’t installed by default.
Which is an action I can agree with.
It’s not clickbait, it’s just intentionally misleading at best, and factually wrong at worst. It’s not ditching the minimal option, it’s making it the default.
Yeah what the fuck? It’s literally the exact opposite of the title.
Clickbait title… But
I think this is a good idea; giving folks, by default, more control over what is going onto to their systems. Reduces the bloat and the ISO size is definitely useful in certain situations. Power of choice to the users!
A “Minimal Ubuntu”? Like … Debian?
Shots fired.
I think he hit the bullseye 🤭
Look here buster that was a stretch at best!
Should we squeeze more from this?
These puns got me all wheezy!
As much as I like/enjoy to circlejerk about Ubloatu… they are giving more options for customization. Which is way better than (just) giving it a “minimal” option.
Until we see what this actually means, it’s just speculation.
But I will say this, I dropped Ubuntu when they forced snaps on me, I only needed super slim server installs that I could make into what I needed. As a result this actually doesn’t mean much to me, other than its clear that Ubuntu has been making bad decisions in the last few years.
However, If I couldn’t install a minimal desktop with no apps like libreoffice, firefox and a bunch of stupid games, I would be pissed right off.
They also used to have a MinimalCD, but that has been dropped after 20.04 IIRC.
Oh no, but I always use this… :(
