[20:54] <xnox> realtime-neil:  there is now support in some newer series for "minimal" ubuntu desktop which has less apps.
[20:54] <xnox> it does work by removing things.
[20:54] <xnox> there is a removal manifest for minimal somewhere on the iso
[20:55] <xnox> not sure when it was introduced, maybe it's only in focal?
[20:55] <realtime-neil> xnox: I just got the custom squashfs working with the Bionic desktop installer ... it's decent enough that I can get by
[20:57] <realtime-neil> If I feel like getting reckless, then I can try putting the focal kernel, initrd, and extras into my custom Bionic iso and `url=*.iso` --- but that's at least two weeks in my future.