So the discussion about the chess app on the Librem 5 kind of has me thinking what everybody’s opinions would be on what are the minimal apps do you think need to be installed on the operating system when you receive a new Librem 5? Certainly a page or three can be added to the box with a list of a…

Well, to be more convenient to the non-regular gnu/Linux user, maybe looking at what is provided by default on other smartphones, Android or Ios based Lots of people are used to those OS, the more Librem5 provides the default app provided by those OS, the less they will feel something is missing by…

True, and at the risk of making things more difficult for Purism, they could have a clean OS and one with all the usual apps included?

Does it really add much? They already don’t pre-install very many apps so it’s already pretty minimal and unlike Android you can remove anything you don’t want anyway (OK you might need a little command line familiarity and it could be made a bit easier, but it’s not prevented in any way)

Sure but even now you can uninstall the metapackage and just install it’s individual component packages yourself if you want?

Will they be reinstalled each time there is a OS update?

Quoting from @linmob ’s blog post : The number of preinstalled apps is small: Calls, Chatty (SMS+XMPP), Contacts, GNOME Web (which is surprisingly fast on the Librem 5) are joined by Calculator, Chess (why?),Clocks, Geary (for email), PureOS Store (for Updates and additional Software), Settings, Ter…

I was only referencing some of the comments where folks wanted chess removed, and didn’t seem to like being ‘force fed’ apps with the OS, relating it to apple and android and what they do. I personally don’t mind all the basics, but would rather leave game choices to the end users. On the other han…

[image] db579: Sure but even now you can uninstall the metapackage and just install it’s individual component packages yourself if you want? Uninstalling metapackage does not automatically remove its individual components. It just marks them up as, for lack of better word, unneeded, and apt w…

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fralb5 January 29, 2021, 1:55pm 5

db579:

but it’s not prevented in any way

Removal of chess unwise? Librem 5

Unfortunately, this is an issue with any preinstalled application right now - you can’t uninstall any of them without uninstalling metapackages that hold everything together. This is going to be fixed in Byzantium (the next PureOS release).

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