VDQ desktop

[Beartooth]

I recently installed Ubuntu 5.10, and then started to remove things I knew
I wouldn't ever use -- such as games, and chat, and OpenOffice. (I don't
do the first two; AbiWord is plenty for what little word processing I do,
and a lot faster.)

It wouldn't let me remove some of them, or else warned me, that IF I
removed them, I would also lose the ubuntu desktop. I'm very surprised,
because RH/FC (which ubuntu resembles quite a bit, despite its debianity)
have never made any difficulty.

So I have a Very Dumb Question : suppose I do let it go ahead and remove
its own desktop. Will it automatically give me another instead? Or do I
have to find and install one manually somehow, presumably from Gnome? Or
do I thereby render my whole OS unusable, or maybe turn my hardware into a
doorstop?

I don't find these questions on this forum, not in the beginner's guide;
my apologies if I've just missed them somehow. 

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
FC5; CXO 5.0.1; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.14.2.91; Privoxy 3.0.3;
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Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.