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The Resetter tool will take Ubuntu, Linux Mint (and a few other, Ubuntu-based distributions) back to stock configuration. Jack Wallen shows how.

How many times have you dived deep into Ubuntu (or a Ubuntu derivative), configuring things and installing software, only to find that your desktop (or server) platform isn’t exactly what you wanted. This situation can be problematic when you already have all of your user files on the machine. In this case, you have a choice, you can either back up all your data, reinstall the operating system, and copy your data back onto the machine, or you can give a tool like Resettera go.

Resetter is a new tool (written by Canadian developer that goes by the name “gaining”), written in Python and pyqt, that will reset Ubuntu, Linux Mint (and a few other, Ubuntu-based distributions) back to stock configurations. Resetter offers two different reset options: Automatic and Custom. With the Automatic option, the tool will:

• Remove user-installed apps
• Delete users and home directories
• Create default backup user
• Auto install missing pre-installed apps (MPIAs)
• Remove non-default users
• Remove snap packages

The Custom option will:

• Remove user-installed apps or allow you to select which apps to remove
• Remove  old kernels
• Allow you to choose users to delete
• Delete users and home directories
• Create default backup user
• Allow you to create custom backup user
• Auto install MPIAs or chose which MPIAs to install
• Remove non-default users
• View all dependent packages
• Remove snap packages

I’m going to walk you through the process of installing and using Resetter. However, I must tell you that this tool is very much in beta. Even so, resetter is definitely worth a go. In fact, I would encourage you to test the app and submit bug reports (you can either submit them via GitHub or send them directly to the developer’s email address, gaining7@outlook.com).

It should also be noted that, at the moment, the only supported distributions are:

• Debian 9.2 (stable) Gnome edition
• Linux Mint 17.3+ (support for mint 18.3 coming soon)
• Ubuntu 14.04+ (Although I found 17.10 not supported)
• Elementary OS 0.4+
• Linux Deepin 15.4+

With that said, let’s install and use Resetter. I’ll be demonstrating on Elementary OS Loki.

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