Top 100 Popular AUR you did not know you needed

pannet1 · July 6, 2023, 12:53am

i decided to see the 100th item often to see anything changed. this is not a correct method but helps to quickly check for new entrants.

found goldendict in the 100th place. it supports multiple dictionaries.

pannet1 · January 21, 2024, 9:10pm

lot of changes in the top 100. may be because i am checking after long time.

wonder what does the red lettered packges mean.

noted betterbird, allegedly better than thunderbird. going to check that out.

dalto · January 21, 2024, 9:45pm

It is flagged out of date

fred666 · January 21, 2024, 10:39pm

i want to add my AUR apps that should be in the top 100

Subtitlecomposer (excellent subtitle editor)
makemkv

pannet1 · January 22, 2024, 4:30pm

thanks dalto,
means, it will be removed from repos, soon !

manuel · January 22, 2024, 5:11pm

Maybe not removed from AUR, but the dev simply has not updated the packages for some reason. The dev may update it in the future, or not, we have no definitive way of telling.

You might want to look at the AUR page to see if there are any related comments or reasoning why the particular has not been updated.

Kresimir · January 23, 2024, 8:51am

If it is in the AUR, then it’s not in the repos. It can’t be removed from somewhere where it is not. The AUR is not a repository of packages, it’s a repository of user-made PKGBUILDs.

What happens to out-of-date packages? They may become orphaned and somebody else might take over their maintenance. Or they may remain out of date for a long time. Rarely, they get deleted.

pannet1 · January 23, 2024, 12:04pm

thanks for taking the time in making the distinction glaring for me to understand.

pannet1 · May 19, 2024, 6:56pm

opentofu appeared for the first time in the top 100 i think. some nvidia stuff catching the 100th spot. lot of flutter stuff all over the top … soon this may go. onlyoffice seems to be more popular the libreoffice

dalto · May 19, 2024, 6:58pm

libreoffice is in the repos so the version most people install won’t be in a top AUR list.

pannet1 · May 20, 2024, 7:12am

ha, gotya

pannet1 · April 17, 2025, 12:27pm

may be i was in hybernation or suddenly qt-sudo had risen up to number one. nice to see lot of good projects including faster firefox.

pannet1 · June 18, 2025, 12:09am

qt-sudo still reeling at number 1. noticed the sudden presence of xlibre-server

pannet1 · June 21, 2025, 6:37pm

very interesting read on why the popularity

pannet1 · October 12, 2025, 1:05pm

i can now see full/partial word containing wine, bottle, bin, android, ai.
megasync is new entry at the the 100th place

pannet1 · April 2, 2026, 10:49pm

writing it by heart .. package managers paru and yay on the top now. dms the rising star of wayland. rustdesk ..

gave up .. loss of words .. referring the list .. privacy and performance focused browser and they cant beat brave yet. your usual suspects on the AI front. openoffice probably due to germany. (these are impressions i have, i know nothing and can be very very wrong in opinions, please pardon me for that).

cross platform discord and whatsapp application and linux port of popular windows applications. lot of packages beginning with systemd and xlibre. two packages beginning with nvidia*

tc.