Tap myself on the shoulder 
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I usually install: xorg-*, dwm, dmenu, st, bar scripts, picom, nitrogen, yay, cmus, cmus theme, mpv, scrot, slock, ufw, openssh, gnupg, pass, gimp + scripts addons, reaper (and maybe some plugins), brave-bin, neomutt and/or thunderbird, sxiv, lxappearance, arc-gtk-theme, arc-icon-theme, pcmanfm
ā¦and maybe some more scripts like radio etc for dmenu
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Btop is new one by same dev I think but in Rust?
You can find it in AUR
C++, and now in the community repo.
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I first download and creat timeshift snapshot of my first boot.
Then change the theme to arc dark, papirus icons, get my productivity and utilities apps installed.
Thatās pretty much it. I donāt mess with bash or anything like that. Just get on with the business.
I run my Ansible playbook that gives me, in less than 30 minutes, a working system configured according to my needs
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I spend somewhere around 15-30 minutes configuring my Firefox extension settings because Iām too lazy to export their settings into a file 
Firefox account not suitable for syncing settings?
it does sync a lot of things, but not all of them.
it syncs a lot of my general browser settings, although, for example, I still have to manually disable Firefox telemetry / feedback, as well as automatic searchbar suggestions, both of which are pretty important in my opinion
it also installs all of my extensions automatically, which is very nice, but I need to manually configure the settings within each extension (unless I exported those settings into a file and shared it between my installs), like to enable specific AdGuard settings and check all the AdGuard lists that I need, etc.
also, some of the extensions (like Firefox Multi-Account Containers) do offer account syncing, I only have to log into them and it syncs all the container settings
I sigh deeply andā¦
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I mostly just copy my .config and custom scripts and call it a day. I install software as I go, when I need to use them; so that thereās less bloat. And hey, the .config is already there!
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I just use the computer. I donāt need to do anything. 
Edit: Itās EndeavourOS!
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TL;DR as usual. Update, if I chose not to offer Internet credentials to the installer. Most of the time I want to see if installation is successful, however.
Make sure I could use the touchpad comfortably. On Spiral I had to disable too-weird CAPSLOCK assignment. Occasional adjustments to keyboard shortcuts so I could use a few Windows programs that have those assignments. I donāt need 12 effinā workspaces nor keystrokes to summon them.
Set ā.bashrcā to get rid of illustrious prompts and colors that I hate. On one distro I had to take it off āneofetchā mode, justā¦
Especially on KDE, copy settings from one installation Iāve had for Dolphin, Kate, Konsole etc. Canāt stand Plasma System Settings and the various preference screens of those programs any longer. Strangely enough, I think itās a tie with XFCE and better than MATE now.
Get rid of known bloatware enemies, not naming any names.
Install Wine.
If I cannot get to that third part I rip it off. If I find a serious issue with repositories (like happened to me on OpenMandriva ROME) then I give up. If I discover a 64-bit-only OS then I stick with it no longer than a month, if itās good otherwise but without Wine Iām unwilling to keep it. A few distros have the live ISO which refuses to boot (Solus KDE), refuses to install (LegacyOS), installer crashes with terminal dump (happened to me a short time ago with SparkyLinux āBullseyeā) or fails on bootloader install like used to happen to me everytime with Debian installer.
Canāt you just copy ā.mozillaā folder to the new place? I use Nightly AppImage and get by that way. A straight copy of that whole folder even transfers settings from that lovely extension wall thingie. LOL.
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ohā¦ perhaps I will try that 
thanks!
First thing I do is go through all the possible ways to disable soundcard suspend so that there is no chance it ever gets enabled since I donāt want to blow out my speakers.
I install: qtrans (word translator), qdvdauthor (video DVD creator), ffdiaporama
by the way, may I ask, where exactly is that folder located?..
I congratulate myself because noone else does.
/home/(user)/.mozilla
ā(user)ā is your handle or log-in name.
In file manager might have to press CTRL-H or similar key to see the files that begin with period.
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