Remove Unwanted Software from Ubuntu 14.04

I recently decided to remove some of the useless software that comes bundled with Ubuntu 14.04. This included the games.However removing the games turned out to be little tricky, I finally found the answer on a comment in a thread on Ubuntu forums, thus the post.

Games

sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-mahjongg gnomine gnome-sudoku aisleriot


Most probably you wouldn't require these. I wonder why do these games come bundled with the default installation.

It is completely safe to remove these games

Thunderbird

It is a mail client by Mozilla.I don't find it useful, so here's what I fired

sudo apt-get purge thunderbird*

Thoughts

There are tons of other things that I want to remove from Ubuntu. However doing so might end up breaking my system. Planing to move to a additive minimalistic OS like arch.


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