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I read this but it was for 16.04. As Artful will use gnome-shell, is there any drawback to remove these two packages and their dependencies and use apt or Synaptic as I am used to since ten years?

I did a test on the latest beta and auto removed:

gnome-software packagekit

gnome-software-plugin-snap gstreamer1.0-packagekit packagekit-tools ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-software gstreamer1.0-alsa libllvm4.0 libproxy1-plugin-gsettings libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager libreoffice-pdfimport ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola

So far it seems to work and lower memory consumption to 848Mb at boot. The only drawback I found is the lack of auto codecs installation , and the fact you have normally to add again ubuntu-desktop package before each Ubuntu reelease.

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No drawback that I know of. 1st thing I do after every ubuntu installation is to remove dozens of bloatware packages, including those. As for codecs, just install vlc and mplayer (or mpv) which play everything.

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