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I am just getting into Linux for the first time, and I am loving it. Right now, I am trying to give some older hardware a new breath of life by installing Linux on it.

The newest version of Ubuntu is just a little too much for the hardware I am working with, but Xunbuntu seems to run fairly snappy with minimal issues.

From what I understand, the Xfce interface is fairly different than the GNOME desktop, so I am not too sure if this would be the right forum for this distro.

I wanted to know if there was a way to uninstall pre-installed programs like Abiword, or the GIMP. It has a very limited hard drive capacity, so every byte counts!

Also, any other tips on speeding up Xubuntu would be greatly appreciated.

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Xubuntu uses APT as package manager. So you can use sudo apt-get remove <package_name> from a terminal for uninstalling packages. If you are afraid of the command line, you can also use the Synaptic package manager (GUI application). You can also do it with the Ubuntu Software Center which is more user friendly.

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