Additional Packages

Additional packages one might find useful to have installed on their system

File System Utilities

File system	Package	Creation command	Description
Btrfs	btrfs-progs	mkfs.btrfs	Btrfs filesystem utilities
VFAT	dosfstools	mkfs.fat	DOS filesystem utilities
exFAT	exfatprogs	mkfs.exfat	exFAT filesystem userspace utilities for the Linux Kernel exfat driver
F2FS	f2fs-tools	mkfs.f2fs	Tools for Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS)
ext2/ext3/ext4	e2fsprogs	mkfs.ext2/mkfs.ext3/mkfs.ext4	Ext2/3/4 filesystem utilities
HFS/HFS+	hfsprogs (AUR)	mkfs.hfsplus	User space utils to create and check Apple HFS/HFS+ filesystem
JFS	jfsutils	mkfs.jfs	JFS filesystem utilities
NILFS2	nilfs-utils	mkfs.nilfs2	A log-structured file system supporting continuous snapshotting
NTFS	ntfs-3g	mkfs.ntfs	NTFS filesystem driver and utilities
ReiserFS	reiserfsprogs	mkfs.reiserfs	Reiserfs utilities
UDF	udftools	mkfs.udf	Linux tools for UDF filesystems and DVD/CD-R(W) drives
XFS	xfsprogs	mkfs.xfs	XFS filesystem utilities

System Info Tools

Package	Description
fwupd	Simple daemon to allow session software to update firmware
htop	Interactive process viewer
impression	A straight-forward modern application to create bootable drives.
libimobiledevice	Library to communicate with services on iOS devices using native protocols
lshw	A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine
fwupdman-db	SimpleA daemonutility tofor allowreading sessionman software to update firmwarepages
power-profiles-daemon	Makes power profiles handling available over D-Bus
htop	Interactive process viewer
radeontop	View AMD GPU utilization for total activity percent and individual blocks
man-db	A utility for reading man pages
libimobiledevice	Library to communicate with services on iOS devices using native protocols

Multimedia

Package	Description
aegisub	A general-purpose subtitle editor with ASS/SSA support
amberol	Plays music, and nothing else
blanket	Improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different sounds
handbrake	Multithreaded video transcoder
identity	Compare multiple versions of an image or video
makemkv	DVD and Blu-ray to MKV converter
mediainfo-gui	DVDSupplies technical and Blu-raytag toinformation MKVabout convertermedia files
mousai	Simple application for identifying songs
paleta	Extract the dominant colors from any image
tube-converter	An easy-to-use video downloader
video-trimmer	Trim videos quickly

Productivity

Package	Description
apostrophe	A distraction free Markdown editor for GNU/Linux made with GTK+

Developer Tools

Package	Description
share-preview	Preview and debug websites metadata tags for social media share
textpieces	Transform text without using random websites
webfontkitgenerator	Create @font-face kits easily
gitg	GNOME GUI client to view git repositories
ohmysvg	SVG optimizer
playhouse	A Playground for HTML/CSS/JavaScript
visual-studio-code-bin	Editor for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications

Misc Tools

Package	Description
impressionextension-manager	A straight-forwardnative moderntool for browsing, installing, and managing GNOME Shell Extensions
newsflash	Desktop application designed to createcomplement bootablean drives.already existing web-based RSS reader account
gnome-obfuscate	Censor private information
p7zip	Command-line file archiver with high compression ratio
teamviewer	All-In-One Software for Remote Support and Online Meetings

Extra Firmware

NOTE: These messages just inform about active kernel modules that necessitate firmware to operate associated hardware properly, which was not found. If your systems operates as expected with the default firmware package you don't need this.

To get rid of Possibly missing firmware for module: $MODULE warning messages when rebuilding the initrd install this meta package from the AUR:

yay -S mkinitcpio-firmware