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I installed i3 and want to remove cinnamon to stop getting the prompt at startup to choose a window manager. Is it safe to sudo apt-get purge cinnamon? Or what would be the best way to do this? Thank you.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia
Release: 19.3
Codename: tricia
sudo apt-get remove is safer. It won't remove configuration files, that you may have changed. So easier to change your mind. The only worry that I would have is that it may cause the display-manager(thing that allows you to login) to be removed. It using the old display-manager, then do an install on it (or mark it as manually installed), so that it is not removed.
