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What’s bloat? You need to have a functional computer.
Bloat is when programs that you’ve installed to do something have the gall to use system resources to do the thing you installed them to do.
Just reinstall it every two months and you’ll never get over 1000 packages
That’s extremely inconvenient. Especially if you have important files you need to backup.
Laughs in separate /home partition
My .config and .local are a huge mess, and yet I invested so long tweaking it and adapting it to my taste that the idea of starting from scratch is daunting.
Stuff that’s helped me so far:
- sudo paccache -r
- ncdu ( you may have to install it first )
- pacman -Qqdt
- Konmari’ing my computer occasionally.
Just use NixOS. Not minimalist but very organized and feels comfortable
You can use Nix outside of NixOS. Nix + Void has been the mainstay for my machines for the past couple of years.
Right now I have a VM running NixOS, so I can figure things out. What annoys me is that when asked to list all the programs I want to use, I struggle, but installing things on the fly is so much more easier. Nix-env does that, but it doesn’t add it to a /etc/nixos/configuration.nix, does it? Also, I know about home-manager, but I’ve heard it’s extrememly difficult.
I have this problem with Tubleweed. Installed a few DEs to try them out, but it was easyer to install than remove the same swathe of packages. Now I have multiple file browsers and settings programs :(
Have you tried using snapper to rollback?
I should have, but that was a few weeks ago so now I’m slowly uninstalling unnecessary programs.
It’s inevitable. Occasional needs come up, so you install stuff and forget you have, or you think, “Well, I won’t remove that because I might need it at some point in the future.” Reinstalling every couple of years is not a bad thing. Just make sure to save your home directory.
Ah shit here we go again
reinstalls
Sooo true for me…
What bloat are you talking about here? I’ve never experienced bloating with Arch.
Generally when over time you start installing more and more stuff and you forget to remove it and it feels clunky and bloated.
Are you hopping between DEs?
I installed SwayFX, but no program wanted to open in Wayland despite XWayland being installed, complaining about “no x server”, even the wayland-native programs. I gave up and went to XFCE4, then back to SwayFX because Wayland magically started workinng.
pacman -S python-torch cuda
Try aconfmgr - it’s a declarative config tool which can get you back to lean install after a try-out spree.
