Yes, it's a solid choice for building a base application.
Yes, it's a solid choice for building a base application.
Yay -S linux-firmware htop git p7zip p7zip-plugins unrar tar rsync bash-completion dmidecode traceroute bind cronie xdg-user-dirs numlockon haveged intel-ucode ntfs-3g btrfs-progs exfat-utils gptfdisk autofs fuse2 fuse 3 fuseiso xorg-server nvidia nvidia-lts After this I'll install kde and add these packages yay -S audacity obs-studio kdenlive handbrake timeshift openoffice vscodium pacman-contrib alsa-utils alsa-plugins pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pamac-aur celluloid-git Are these useful for Arch or does it add too much clutter?
Apache OpenOffice is no longer in use, so I recommend considering LibreOffice instead. Regarding office tools, installing some fonts—especially the ttf-ms ones—is a good idea. htop is essential; most of the time I prefer btop, but give it a shot if you haven’t tried it yet. The Muse Group telemetry issue seems resolved. I moved to two active forks now: Tenacity and Audacium. If you don’t mind, stick with Audacity. Honestly, I shouldn’t be the one giving this advice. What I can say is that even with a heavy build like mine, my PC still runs smoothly without any noticeable issues. Just avoid old hardware or limited storage if possible.
You might like Google’s typefaces over Microsoft’s I do. Typically referred to as droid-fonts. Generally, I’m not a big fan of the software you pick, but it doesn’t feel too heavy. You can use smplayer or vlc, plus any browser you prefer, FF, Vivaldi, Chrome, etc.
I mean if you want to talk about bloat, don't rely on Audacity. Use ffmpeg, mpv, not VLC (honestly, I personally prefer mpv over VLC because then I can use system codes instead of VLC's proprietary ones). Don't use a Chromium browser or FF; go with Lynx. If you need AJVScript? Surf. Also, op is looking at our list again—Celluloid is basically just mpv with a GTK toolkit on it.
Installing Timeshift is kind of pointless unless you are using btrfs for your main root partition and have it divided into @ and @home subvolumes. Yes it will work but only in rsync mode, you won't get its ability to create instant snapshots or the ability to restore from a snapshot directly from grub. On that note, grub-btrfs needs to be installed if you want grub to add snapshots to your boot menu. There's also a hook that auto creates a new timeshift snapshot everytime pacman installs something which is useful. Instead of pulse, you should swap to pipewire. While its still not perfect yet it is perfect for most everyday things and offers many benefits of pulse (especially if you run wireplumber instead of pipewire-media-session). Other than those minor things I see nothing that sets off alarm bells, its really subjective what you install and as mentioned above, bloat on Linux doesn't really slow anything down. For fun I actually pulled the entire KDE stack, IIRC it was almost 700 packages just for the DE. It ran exactly the same as it did with a bare install, it just chewed up about 20GB extra HDD space.