So, there’s a lot that comes with Ubuntu that I don’t use. I decided to be adventurous and remove things. First, I used the add/remove applications feature. With this I got rid of the sticky notes application and some other minor things. Then I moved on to the big ones. I just removed evolution and associated packages with this command:
> sudo apt-get remove evolution evolution-common evolution-data-server evolution-exchange evolution-plugins evolution-webcal
Then I removed pidgin:
> sudo apt-get remove pidgin pidgin-data pidgin-otr
Hopefully nothing will break.