dbarron I can't say for sure, but "blacklisting" applications from installing and then maintaining said "blacklist" in future releases should not be all that hard.
I mean Solus already maintains Budgie, Mate, Gnome and plans to maintain Plasma too.
When I said to Ikey - "core Solus team should maintain only Budgie and let other DE's be respins maintained by the community, he said - it's. not that big of an issue to maintain other DE's"
Another thing is - there's this thing called Windows 10 LTSC. It doesn't have most if the MS BS pre-installed. No Cortana, no Edge, no Windows Store and the like. You can postpone updates and many other things that were considered normal and "how things should be"
I can assure you, users would buy this version like hot cakes if they could, but they can't, cos it's Enterprise only.
Many users want a clean OS that they control and it's setup the way they like as fast as possible.
Now Solus defaults are very good and I'm sure a lot of people will say "hey, this us good enough for me, that's all I use anyway" and it's fine, 2 thumbs up for Solus team. I'm just saying that if a minimal install feature is not that hard to implement and maintain - it would be a good thing to have. That's all. Solus devs are gonba do what they gonna do anyway, no matter what I say.
