William Morder wrote:

> Although, yes, I probably have too much installed, I do this because I
> test a lot of different software, then strip down to what I want. For
> example, I try out all the different media players, but I don't keep them
> all.

when you test something you do not do it on your production system. you do
it on a test system. In real life we use many test systems to bring a
software to production. When it is on production - there is one rule: never
touch a running/production system!

So just get a test system and do the testing there. Install and change on
production only what you understand and really need.

Keep a clean image(backup) for the test system is also a good idea, so that
you do not have to install from scratch

regards