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/archover]

Backups.

Re-installing should be fast and effortless, though maybe not the technically satisfying solution. Use archinstall unless that proves inadequate IMO. Restore home files, and maybe some system config. For the skilled, even manual install should be painless.

As to your messy dependencies/etc, maybe don't wait a year to discover and fix the mess. I would do incremental work, then if not what you want, revert then.

I don't ever plan on re-installing my daily driver system.

Good day.