installer convenience questions

[timeltdme]

hi, i am regularly using Ubuntu, Debian, Raspbian and Manjaro and have some questions regarding the installer:

1. why there is no option to "use whole disk" and the only option in the kubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64 installer is "manual partitioning" ?

2. how does the recommended software get to the list of recommended software inside the installer? it would be great to know, what is installed inside preselected packages, otherwise i go with "minimal" any time

3. Touchpad "tap to left mouse click" didn't work on Lenovo T480, not in installer, nor in system, until I set "Tap-to-click" in Touchpad settings.

thanks

[claydoh]

1. I can't say. I have the option here:
   
2. The distro decides what is contained in the compressed OS disk image used as the installer and live environment. Sure, it would be nice to know exactly what is included, but that might make things a LOT less convenient and use a lot of space. But on top of the core parts of Plasma, the feature tour pretty much sums up what is included on a normal install, plus a few games. Distros, *buntu in particular, set a specific image size goal, which also determines what can be included by defualt. They tend to favor multi-language and region support over the number of included apps. Kubuntu's full install is not really bloated or overbearing, imo.
   
   if you want to see exactly what is included on the compressed disk image, and thus on the installed system, browse the ISO or usb stick to /casper/filesystem.manifest. To see what is uninstalled from this to make it a minimal system, look at filesystem.manifest-remove. The addons applications appear to be downloaded from the internet.
   
   Yes, on the live installer, the minimal install option takes longer to perform, since it has to uninstall the items after the OS image has been blasted to disk.
3. I believe this is the defualt setting in the driver. I have always had to set this on touch pads that have physical clicking, no matter the distros I have used.