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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