I’m a current Arch user that started his journey in EOS.
A friend of mine interested in moving over to Linux asked me what comes “pre-packaged” so to speak in EOS vs a bare Arch install, and I while I know the baseline answer is “just enough for a sane install” I realised I didn’t know the exact things that EOS sets-up/ installs.
I’ve had a look around, but can’t seem to find a detailed list anyway. Maybe I’ve been looking in the wrong places.
Does such a list exist? I’d be curious to look through it out of curiosity and perhaps to show to more advanced new users or existing Arch users needing to do a fresh install and not having to go through all the manual faff.
Well, Archlinux doesn’t have a list of pre-installs to begin with. You install the base system according to the wiki. That’s about it. After that you decide what to install and how to configure.
EOS has some default package lists. However you could select and deselect as you wish. Then it has some configuration for bootloaders, dracut and perhaps some more.
Distrowatch has an interesting feature. A distro compairison page that supposedly lists all packages included per distro. Although I do not see a way to differentiate DE s, which would obviously change the lists, or know how accurate the list really is.
