Uninstall Studio and Install "Regular" Ubuntu?

[Topher88]

Okay so, here's the deal. I installed Ubuntu Studio on my laptop because I wanted to try it out and see if I'd like all of the cool apps. Well, a few months down the line, I have decided that I don't much care for it, and would rather have regular ubuntu installed and manually re-install the studio only applications that I liked.

I'm hoping it's not too hefty of a procedure, because the ISO is currently en route to my computer. I am currently dual booting with Vista, so is there a way that I could easily uninstall Studio from the ext3 partition and replace it with a clean install of "regular" Karmic? I have already backed up all the files that I would like to move over, so that is not a problem.

Now, I know what a lot of you are going to say... "Just uninstall the apps you don't want and BAM. You've got regular Ubuntu." Well, there really is a difference in the framework of the two OS's. For instance, I had to manually install applications like Empathy that automatically came with the Karmic update for everyone else, and I didn't get the Download Center that replaces Add/Remove Programs, either. Also, Studio doesn't come with a Network Manager, so that was a huge pain as well. There really is a difference, and I've decided that I'd rather just have the same Ubuntu that everyone else has and manually install the Studio applications that I like.

Thanks!

[lidex]

Do you have a separate /home partition?
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
More:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/

[Topher88]

Do you have a separate /home partition?
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
More:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/

Thanks, but as I mentioned I already backed everything up on an external drive, so that was no problem. I was just wanting to know what procedure to take to replace Ubuntu Studio with regular old Ubuntu.

But I figured it it, following these (http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/reinstallation) instructions. I won't say it was seamless because I did run into a few snags and had to spend more time with the partitioner than I would have liked, but I got it all sorted out. I am quite please with the results and hope that regular Ubuntu will be less of a pain than Studio was. The only thing is that, now, I will be headed to the wireless and networking section because the newly installed version of Ubuntu failed to recognize the drivers that both Studio and the LiveCD version of Ubuntu recognized, and now I don't have any internet, so I need to find out how to attain them.