Installed Software

Administration

udisks2 — disk management daemon
networkmanager — network connection management daemon
inetutils — basic networking utilities
zsh — advanced shell
openssh — secure shell access (SSH client/server)
openvpn — vpn client/server daemon
btop — resource monitor

Utilities

paru — AUR helper
bat — enhaced cat clone
lsd — ls replacement
fd — faster find alternative
fzf — command-line fuzzy finder
tmux — terminal multiplexer
xclip — X11 clipboard access from terminal
rofi — application launcher and window switcher
keepassxc — password manager with database encryption
playerctl — control media players that implement MPRIS
maim — take screenshots
yt-dlp — cli audio|video downloader
ffmpeg — wide foss libraries for audio and video manipulation
ueberzug — image preview in terminal (used with ranger)
rclone — sync files from/to cloud storage
rsync — remote file sync tool
syncthing — p2p file synchronization
dbeaver — graphical database administration tool
libmypaint — mypaint brush engine (used in krita)
xdotools — X11 scripting handler
tesseract-data[spa|eng] — optical character recognition

Analysis

wireshark — network packet analyzer
ghidra — reverse engineering tool
virtualbox — X86 virtualizer for VMs
tinyxxd — create hexadecimal dump of binaries
ipython — python command shell for interactive computing

Terminal based applications

nvim — powerful text editor
ranger — file manager
zathura — document viewer
zathura-pdf-mupdf — mupdf backend (PDF/EPUB support)
mpv — media player with scripting support
feh — simple fast image viewer
7zip — file archiver
wget — retrive files using common network protocols
fastfetch — system information tool

Graphical based applications

obsidian — markdown-based note-taking/viewer
firefox — web browser
krita — digital painting
inkscape — vector graphics editor
blender-3.6-bin — 3D creation suite
stremio — media streaming hub
gpick — color picker | pallete editor

Gaming

discord — VoIP platform
steam — game store and launcher
wine — windows compatibility layer
winetricks — windows libraries on Wine
protonup-qt — graphical tool for manage compatibility tools (Proton-GE in this case)
proton-GE — community’s custom version of proton
protontricks — windows libraries on proton (steam)

System Components

xorg — X11 display server
pipewire — audio and video server
pipewire-pulse — pulse audio api for pw
wireplumber — PipeWire session manager
qtile — tiling window manager
picom — X11 compositor
alacritty — GPU-accelerated terminal
sddm — QML based display manager

Dev Tools

base-devel — general build tools such as compiler, utilities, etc
git — version control system
nodejs — js runtime environment
npm — Node.js package manager
pnpm — Better package manager for node, better management of shared dependencies.
wrangler — manage cloudflare
jdk-openjdk — Open-Source implementation of JDK
drawio-desktop — diagram/flowchart editor
graphviz — tool for drawing graph visualization using dot-lang
docker — container engine for isolated app environments
the_silver_searcher — code-oriented faster ack/grep alternative
uv — Python packet manager
python-pynvim — python provider for nvim
python-pyqt5 — python bindings for qt5 (i use this for scripting in krita)
cmake — application builder | utilities atomator
tree — directory listing display deep indented list of files (i use this for documentation)

Database Server

postgresql — advanced object-relational database system
mariadb — relational database server
valkey — in-memory key-value distributed cache and message broker

Fonts

noto-fonts — sans/serif, wide language support
noto-fonts-cjk — chinese, japanese and korean support
ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd — JetBrains Mono with Nerd Fonts glyphs
ttf-hack — Hack with programming ligatures
ttf-dejavu — broad Unicode coverage, good for fallback
ttf-liberation — metric-compatible with microsoft core fonts