menulibre or alacarte you can use to fiddle with the menu
Chromium - known issue of a few people’s setups. It is because chrome/chromium linux graphical acceleration is fairly non-existent. You can turn off acceleration in the chromium config settings - or use a browser like firefox that supports linux graphical acceleration
Bluetooth - perennial issue - few solutions here - Bluetooth connected at startup
… finally all the apps removed as part of the minimal setup is here: