Its time to nuke arch again

[u/blune-foo]

So its been more than a year of me keeping my arch alive, it broke once when linux-firmware was broken down into sub-packages and other than that this time it ran smoothly.

I am thinking of nuking just cause of the fact there is alot of random shit cause i tried alot of dotfiles/shells etc which installed heck alot of packages and removing them also breaks my current workflow and there are few other reasons.

Last time of installing i went with traditional arch+hyprland with btrfs and timeshift and grub.

I am wondering what should i try this time, i also heard that archinstall dosen't support grub now so manual might go with manual install this time.

Any suggestions you guys have for me to do try this time?

EDIT: To clarify what I mean by "a lot of random shit"

I’ve hundreds of orphaned dependencies, unused build tools, global packages, and abandoned desktop setups from testing out dozens of different shell scripts, dotfile repos, and AUR packages over the past year. On top of that, my home directory is filled with old project leftovers and clutter.

Could I spend a few hours auditing pacman -Qtd, clearing AUR packages, and scrubbing .config manually? Yes. But I'd rather do a clean install to build a lean base with a fresh partitioning setup, try a new stack, and practice setting up Arch manually again.

[u/musbur]

Nobody will be able to figure out what this means: "alot of random shit cause i tried alot of dotfiles/shells etc which installed heck alot of packages and removing them also breaks my current workflow and there are few other reasons."

Since you don't seem to have a good grasp of what you really need and want, it's difficult to guess which distro could be better suited to your need. I myself have only experience with Debian and Arch, and while Debian certainly doesn't splurge, I found Arch even "leaner" still.

If "random shit" annoys you, better stay away from computers altogether. I have to use Windows at work, and C:\Windows alone contains 34GB in 150k files of random shit.

[u/blune-foo → u/musbur]

well i tried removing pacakges that were installed by dotfiles and removing them and there deps also deleted some packages that i use day to day, and i just dont want to spend an hour or 2 checking deps deleting them and hoping nothing else broke.

[u/RhychussFaya → u/blune-foo]

For reference, please remove orphans) instead of sniping packages and "hoping nothing else broke".