20+ years ago, Lindows had a great app store that let you create an “aisle” of your favorite apps so if/when you’d reinstall your OS, instead of searching and installing all your apps one-by-one, you’d just go to your aisle, click “install all” and boom.

Is there anything that exists like that today?

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Just to add a bit more to this for the newbies who are using Arch (god help you).

    pacman -Qe | awk '{print $1}' > packages.txt

    Will write this list to a file, run without the ‘> packages.txt’ if you just want to see the output and;

    sudo pacman -S --needed - < packages.txt

    Will install all of the needed (i.e. not installed) packages from that list.