I know. That’s what it says in the blog post I linked and what I did.
I didn’t ask for technical support.
That’s what I want to discuss. You can say well it’s just minimal but that’s clearly a slider in terms of what to include. Gnome Shell was included, so not that minimal. The Ubuntu Gnome Shell extensions were included, which definitely not minimal or stock.
Most of the exclusions for the Ubuntu Desktop minimal install make a lot sense. Not including the games for example, cool, that’s just extra. This package missing however means viewing rectangles in some webpages where emojis are suppose to be. That’s not a good experience out of the box.
Did you get Google Chrome browser out of the box? - I guess not,right?
Firefox is the default but if you like to use Chrom you need to install it +the dependencies for it.
+1 for including emoji support out of the box on a minimal install.
also agree that everyone’s responses so far have been much more confrontational than necessary. if we’re trying to build a community here, let’s make it a friendly one. it’s ok to say “no”. it’s not necessary to say “no, and we don’t appreciate you asking”.
although in this case the right answer is “yes”, imo.
Installed Ubuntu Desktop Minimal to easy get rid of all bloatware games and was surprised to have core functionality missing out of the box.
Emojis is such integrated and essential part of society, it is not an “extra”. No other operating system out there even has an option to disable Emojis.
From experience, I know many of the old hands in the community (including some earlier in this thread) mean Netboot when they talk about “Minimal”, and many of them use netboot on IOT devices, servers, and other headless systems.