Linux Mint LANGUAGE Problems

Thank you for this, keep it up! ☺️

Are you sure Linux Mint is the only one that does that? I am running Pop Os and I downloaded a Display application from their store and it was in Chinese

Yet still less bloated than windows because who knows why windows just keeps on growing in GB's. Storage is dirt cheap. Once you in the TB range this really does not matter much.

i remember something worse, i downloaded 2 small flatpak apps about less than 5 megs total(both of them) but it downloads more than a gig of dependencies from flathub. i guess since the small apps required that gigs dependency then its not a bloat? the native package version only takes some dozens of megs total. along with dependencies. why do faltpak requires such a big dependency bundles? i mean in windows, the only dependency required probably merely a few MSVC redist which only 20-50megs but apply to every other apps. just dont understand why flatpak support libs must be so big.

Mint is bloated beyond belief and you don't even have the option to skip or choose the default apps one-by-one that you don't need on installation, unless they've changed that by now? However, I'd say this it is for sure one of the most functional distros out there.

That is INSANE! BTW, I recently created my own distro called F3OS (shorthand for The Free Family-Friendly Operating System), which is based on Debian Stable, uses the Xfce desktop environment (I do, BTW, have plans to create editions with other desktop environments), and comes with built-in web content filtering, for families as well as anyone else who wishes to have a safeguard against online temptation. I just checked Synaptic in F3OS, and no, Debian didn't do that nonsense like what happened in Mint. :-)

500mb doesn't seem much by today's standards. But it's much for text data.

But, why?

When I looked under "libreoffice" I noticed a bunch of files for previous versions of LO, like 7.2,7.3,7.4, etc. Would most of these files be ok to remove?

My Debian 12.4 (Gnome) install from a live usb did the same thing. I also found that I could delete some excess fonts from the ../truetype folder.
My LibreOffice Calc font selection drop down menu was enormously long at first. Now I only have what I want.

I have English, Spanish, and Mandarin. Two different keyboard layouts for Eng/Sp and one input method to change from Eng/Mandarin. I like keeping fonts so I can render things correctly, but no need for dictionaries, etc.

This annoys me a lot.
Glad I'm not the only one. :)
Thanks for the video!

Thank you for this tip! I did recall seeing on the software updater that updates languages I was never going to use and typically took the longest in the updater... I just didn't think I could remove it as I thought it was part of the complete package. Idk, I didn't give it much thought.

TY so much, that was a lot of crap I didn't need! Thumbs up man!

Come to MX Linux with KDE Plasma~ It's great! 🤪

Useful tips. The American stereotyping of the rest of the world, not so much.

And American English - pretty much a linguistic virus as far as I'm concerned.

you are judgemental but good tip on saving space..and putin might have lot less russian spies than US has military bases around the world creating hellfire for the rest of us

Manjaro used to nag me about installing Language packs when I first installed it. In recent versions they've gotten rid of those nags. Sounds like the Mint team trying to be everybodies beginner OS out of the box. Can't blame them since they have the top recommendations everywhere for being that. They probably figure advanced users would have moved onto something more customizable like Arch or plain Debian by the time they get to "Switched To Linux Host" stage.

fyi, This isn't a problem with LMDE

Have to admit when looking into the move from windows to Linux this channel sort of helped make up my mind, it's been mint ever since.

Oh, man I'm so GLAD somebody brought this up! When I set up a Mint laptop, I TRY to remember to go get rid of all the extra languages like you did before I do that first update because boy, does it take a long time if you don't.

At one time, we had a choice to refuse language packs. Now its baked in to the distro. Lucky for me most of my Drives are 1 TB, plenty of space lol

Its not a significant amount of space but I'm going to come at this from the perspective of what's the point of updating and installing things you aren't using (like alternative languages). Its more about principle than it is about the space itself.

if you try to use a language that uses a different writing system or has accents like this é you will just get a bunch of ???? because it only supports pure ascii because Unicode is bloatware and also spyware. and most Linux users are from places like Amsterdam or Oslo and hate their own languages .

Thank's for that heads up Tom,I have checked LMDE and that does not have the same problem.

Hiya Tom...you will be glad to know that LMDE does not suffer from the same problem.

Have to disagree on this one. Believe it or not, for many people out there English is but a one of several languages they use daily, even if it's the main one on their PC. And the way to get all the langpacks and input methods you need isn't always straightforward. Not to mention that you are fighting for literal megabytes here.
So yeah... As a someone who uses English, Russian and Japanese every day, I rate this video a monolingual/10.

Did you just made a video about 500MB? 😹

I use Bleachbit after every install. It cleans unneeded languages right out.

LMDE 6 doesn't have this problem, it must be an Ubuntu problem. LMDE would be the perfect distro if they included Nvidia drivers. I couldn't get Nvidia drivers working through the command line. I had to go to the Nvidia website and download from there. Works good now.

Русский язык бы оставил, пригодится 😊

omgomgomgomg the world is gonna end its half a GIGABYTE

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Wow, I had no idea! Great tutorial. This may be off-topic but isn't it time that Mint start to look for an alternative to Xfce? When you put it againt MATE there's barely a noticeable difference, those that pick Xfce are most likely in need of a lightweight DE and Xfce is not as lightweight as it used to be, I think it has to do with the switch to GTK3?

I am saying this as a fan of Xfce btw. What about LXDE or something similar? I know it would probably piss off some that like Mint Xfce and prefer it over Cinnamon or MATE. I feel the Xfce Edition no longer serve a purpose. The idea of Mint's Xfce Edition is obviously about making Mint accessible for those that are on older computers.

Reiterating what @soulstenance said below I have no issue with language packs as I to am using LMDE 6. It maybe that the Ubuntu based Linux Mint has this problem. Being British I only had to remove 2 US and one South African language packs, all other non-British language packs were clear.

And naiive gurly me always thought Mint's biggest problem was its Ubuntu base. :/

who cares with 1 GB ssd, i never run of even 50% space

Debian 12 Xfce does this as well and also includes Aspell. I also removed the Thai-terminal...

I just checked and this is a non-issue on my LMDE 6. I chose English Canada locale and Swedish keyboard at install (I'm a language nerd, don't worry about it 😅) and that is exactly what I have. I actually had a Steam game that demanded I install the English US locale so I have that partially installed too even though I didn't want it, but that's unrelated to Linux Mint. LibreOffice also only installed US in addition to Canada and I saved a few 100KB by removing that so it wasn't much. This sounds like an Ubuntu issue to me. Maybe it's time to switch to LMDE hehe.

Complaining over a half a GB of space being eaten up - wow. I get it, it's unnecessary but it's not that much space really. More annoying than anything else.

Also love the use of the Monty Python style circus music in the video 😂

No Tom you missed one other huge flaw is that Mint has not dropped Ubuntu as it's base, and made Mint DE their main focus yet, as Canonical is making it harder to get the source Ubuntu iso's hiding them on a web server most will never go to, as pointed out in a recent video by Brodie Robertson.

Not sure what the big deal is really. Part of the course for new to Linux distorts

Storage is so cheap these days

It would be easier to remove all those packages from the terminal by using a smart regular expression. Of course then you need to know how to do that but it probably is worth it to learn it and that way not have to use the much slower GUI all the time for these kind of tasks. I have nothing against using the GUI but in some cases it takes much more time and then I recommend using the terminal.

I'm on LMDE6 and I do not get the extra english language versions. Ubuntu doing it?

anyone in lmde facing this problem? cuzz I'm on lmde I didn't have any other unwanted lang packages installed on my pc so lamde is good ?

I’d say have it install by default, but when installing have one of the advanced options be to only install one regions language. That way Mint keeps its ‘works out of the box’ functionality and you could avoid some bloat. This is definitely a Mint oversight. Another edit: I'm going through removing langues and it had a ton fully installed. Guess which one was not fully installed, US English, the one I'd picked for my language! 🤣🤣