Yes.
I did it with dism commands.
However, you can go to the start screen, rt click an app. and an icon appears at the bottom of the screen so you can uninstall it.
Some of them are hard to get rid of. The Store app. and IE are persistent little buggers. You can leave just those two if you like.
You can also discourage them from trying to start with a small registry change .
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\AllUserInstallAgent] "Start"=dword:00000004 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SystemEventsBroker] "Start"=dword:00000004 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\TimeBroker] "Start"=dword:00000004
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\WSService] "Start"=dword:00000004
Go to folder options and untick "Hide Protected Operating system Files "
Take ownership of C:\Program files\WindowsApps and delete it.
You can use the take ownership context menu to do that:
Take Ownership - Add to Context Menu in Windows 8