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Tags: App List, applications

My Archlinux Applist

This is not my only App List:

I am slowly switching away from Ubuntu to Arch Linux, hence this article. But it might not have all apps that I use / will use yet. So you can look at the Ubuntu Applist as well, seeing as that Ubuntu and Arch Linux will have overlapping apps & install methods.

Flatpak

  • Zen is my browser.
  • obsidian is the note taking app on which I create these articles :3
  • Spotify
  • Konsole as a terminal, the default KDE terminal (which is not by default installed)

Terminal installs

  • OS-prober is installed with pacman -S os-prober, used for detecting other partitions with grub.
  • Git is installed with pacman -S git
  • Yet another yoghurt - YAY is installed with sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si or if you don’t want to compile it yourself: sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git && cd yay-bin && makepkg -si. this is used for installing apps from pacman and AUR.
  • nvidia drivers are a bit more complicated, read nvidia and stuff.

YAY installs

These are both apps from the official Arch repo, and from AUR. So some of these can also be done with pacman, some cannot.

  • vscode (the open source version) is installed with yay -Sy vscode
  • discord with yay -Sy discord
  • Syncthing with yay -Sy syncthing, and then systemctl start syncthing.service --user to autostart.
  • Dolphin as a file manager, the default KDE file manager (which is not by default installed) with yay -Sy dolphin, because the Flatpak version has issues like this.

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