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I also hate this thing. It's wasting space and just plain pointless.

I know the media has photos on it, for crying out loud--that's why I'm browsing it.

Also, the wording is just annoying....

In this state, I went into Synaptic, searched for 'alsa', and marked anything likely-looking for reinstallation. This doesn't do the full purge or remove gdm or ubuntu-desktop, but after doing this...