How to install ubuntu 18.04 minimal edition?

Question

laptops

Being a fan of minimalism, I do not like a lot of pre-installed software in operating systems and have always installed ubuntu with minimal cd or net install. But I bought a new asus ux310 laptop with an intel wireless 8260 wi-fi adapter and this adapter is not detected by the installer during the installation process. Are there any other options for installing ubuntu in a minimal version? If you install a bare ubuntu server and then install xfce on it, is it the same as the desktop version, or is there some difference in the server version?
PS I do not want to install other distributions, I'm used to ubuntu.

Answer 1

You can install the server version, install xfce on it and clean it from server applications that you do not plan to use.
Or install a regular Ubuntu and clean up applications that are not planned to be used.
IMHO, the labor costs are about the same.

Answer 2

Download the original image during installation, the function (Minimal install) will be available, when selected, a minimum set of software will be available.
Info taken from here

Answer 3

in principle, any variant of ubunta can be converted into another through shamanism with apt
repositories and they have an identical set of packages.
a build-disk is a collection of packages from one-on-one repositories aimed at a certain target.
there is a standard netboot build that allows you to install ubuntu purely from tyrnet repositories with a full-size selection during installation. It has a mini.iso of the minimum size from which you can put any variant of ubuntu.