Instead of nuking a partition and starting from scratch, is there a saner way to clean the system and slim it down?

Im resorting to listing explicitly installed packages and trying to write down what catches my eye that i dont use, or i wanted to try then forgot.

  • mikesailin
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    9 months ago

    At the time you first install the system do: “yay -Qqe >newinstalls.txt” which will create a list of installed packages. Then later you can do it again but to another file: “yay -Qqe >nowinstalls.txt”. Then do: “diff newinstalls.txt nowinstalls.txt” which will give you a list of the differences between the two.