Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2        55G  8.4G   44G  17% /

That includes my home directory. 8.4GB. I removed LibreOffice as I don't really use it but I agree with it being in the default install.

Any easy (and dangerous) way to remove the DE is to remove the toolkit it's built on. You'll have a pretty minimal install after that.

Justin , well right off the bat, I forgot about my VMs - that's 10G right there. Then some left over config dotfiles from several games I have uninstalled a while ago. No more mystery. Case closed, ha!

    Yes virtual machines add it up pretty darn fast...but they're so cute and so useful...sigh.

    elfprince I install Solus on 12Gb virtual machines to make tests without any space issues. The used space depends on what you do and nobody else than you can tell that.

      [deleted] I mainly use web based options for office applications. I have Office 365 from my work and at home I use Google Docs a lot.

        About a week late to this conversation but I also would love a minimum install version. I understand Solus aims to provide sane defaults and for users new to Linux that is great and there is a great selection. However for people who have been using Linux for over a decade, there are packages we already use (either for familiarity or preference) instead of some of these defaults and there are choices made that we would never make. Yes I can just remove these as always said in these discussions but personally I would rather build up than strip down. A minimal install would be for more advanced users who choose to use Solus instead of say Arch or Gentoo.

        Anyway, I also understand that Solus does not have as much manpower and maybe if that grew this might change so I'm not suggesting it should be done immediately. But I did want to give further reasons for why this is requested and show there are a few users who would like this.

        Justin I believe they would love a bare system, with just the X, Network Manager and wifi drivers. Then they would install things of their choice. :-)

            @[deleted] And what about networking? Clearly we shouldn't assume someone has network connectivity instead of just installing it from a USB they had delivered from a pidgin, so clearly we shouldn't have NetworkManager too!

            Yep Josh, obviously people would want to be secure and isolated from the nasty porn-filled internet, so yep, no network 🙂
            We can go back to token-pigeon, where we only transmit when the watchful pigeon is in the window once a day.

            A IGNORE permanently options for new software's in software center / Updates would be nice...as of now ending up installing everything.

            This option also would be nice eopkg up for just updates and eopkg upn for old updates and extra new software's....

              [deleted] hi my idea is i just need an update for my installed software i don't want to install new software. in the software center if i don't install new software the list grows and i cant easily find my required update . So if any option to ignore the new software's will be nice right so the list will be less.

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                  viyoriya I honestly don't know what you're after. If you install updates from software center, you won't get new software unless the new versions of packages depend on something.