qole: not really. I just don't have a need for them. also, a bit OCD seeing so many icons on my device that i would never use.

I'm actually fine with just removing them. If you could just list the packages installed, that would be fine as well.

1 other service i plan to run is asterisk. do you think it would install properly?

Btw, side note, i'm fairly new to linux. I've always developed my webapps (PHP) on Windows making sure they'd run properly when on linux.