No. You can with other distros, but not with Knoppix. But you can always just remove the ones you don't use after you install it.
is there any way i can edit what programs are installed? there are a lot of things i dont need like the gimp that will just take up space.
No. You can with other distros, but not with Knoppix. But you can always just remove the ones you don't use after you install it.

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