How do i remove Youtube from 3.9.1 OS?

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how do i remove Youtube from 3.9.1 OS? Earlier OS versions were easy to do this.
OS 3.9.1 seems to have made this difficult?

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You can’t directly, as the corresponding desktop specification files are part of the OSTree Deployment, which is read-only.

However, you can hide it. Example for Youtube:

Get the current Deployment:

ostree admin status

will give you something like:

* eos 964fe05939b539b6273b6e44a52e179e91f86fa64cbca44bc7ed32c38d094018.0
    Version: 3.9.1
    origin refspec: eos:os/eos/amd64/eos3a
    GPG: Signature made Mon 07 Dec 2020 04:33:36 PM CET using RSA key ID 9E08D8DABA02FC46
    GPG: Good signature from "EOS OSTree Signing Key 1 <maintainers@endlessm.com>"
    GPG: Key expires Sat 30 Jun 2029 06:18:11 PM CEST
    GPG: Signature made Mon 07 Dec 2020 04:33:40 PM CET using RSA key ID FCF17B17F1F8E157
    GPG: Good signature from "EOS Flatpak Signing Key 1 <maintainers@endlessm.com>"
    GPG: Key expires Tue 09 Jun 2026 07:47:38 PM CEST
  eos dbc65bfff121b358e77af3f84fa870037a5f5ba7a7b1b47dcc49a4ffc413a28f.0 (rollback)
    Version: 3.9.0
    origin refspec: eos:os/eos/amd64/eos3a
    GPG: Signature made Mon 09 Nov 2020 04:34:41 PM CET using RSA key ID 9E08D8DABA02FC46
    GPG: Good signature from "EOS OSTree Signing Key 1 <maintainers@endlessm.com>"
    GPG: Key expires Sat 30 Jun 2029 06:18:11 PM CEST
    GPG: Signature made Mon 09 Nov 2020 04:34:45 PM CET using RSA key ID FCF17B17F1F8E157
    GPG: Good signature from "EOS Flatpak Signing Key 1 <maintainers@endlessm.com>"
    GPG: Key expires Tue 09 Jun 2026 07:47:38 PM CEST

The currently booted deployment is marked with a asterix. Remember the Hash for the deployment, in my case 964fe05939b539b6273b6e44a52e179e91f86fa64cbca44bc7ed32c38d094018.0.

Find the corresponding Desktop specification

All the Specification files are located under the following Path:

/sysroot/ostree/deploy/eos/deploy/964fe05939b539b6273b6e44a52e179e91f86fa64cbca44bc7ed32c38d094018.0/usr/share/applications

(Replace the Hash with yours from the first Step).

Now, copy the file - eos-link-youtube.desktop in this case - to your local path ~/.local/share/applications

Hide the Entry

Edit the file in your local path with the Editor and insert the following line:

Hidden=true

Now the entry no longer shows up.

Probably a better solution is to simply keep everything you use on a daily basis on the first page of the Desktop and everything else from the second one onward.

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You can remove it through Parental Controls

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Hi Egrath.

This is appreciated. Am on it.

P

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