I never want to use gnome, mate, or systemd again. I understand that I can ignore certain packages in mint-update. Will this prevent them from ever being installed?
How do I prevent these things from ever being installed, and remove them and everything which uses them as a dependency from both mint-update and mint-install?
Once I download KDE, how do I switch everything over to use KDE? Are there configuration files somewhere that allow me to select the programs and daemons that do certain things? For example, how do I select the default file manager, and the file manager which will appear as my desktop? How do I select the applets that monitor my power usage and the system-daemon?
This is probably way over my head, but how do I make an image of my newly configured installation so that I can share it with other people?