Things in this vein were exactly what i was looking for wwhen i made the post. thanks. Freed up almost a gig.

i’m also using a chromebook with 16 gb emmc storage. my installs keep being about 10 gigs with xfce. i was thinking i would end up with just about your numbers but there is almost 5 gigs of other stuff i ended up with from the live disk installer.

I am using xfce atm. I might just have to fix my driver problems and do a netinstall