20+ years ago, Lindows had a great app store that let you create an “aisle” of your favorite apps so if/when you’d reinstall your OS, instead of searching and installing all your apps one-by-one, you’d just go to your aisle, click “install all” and boom.

Is there anything that exists like that today?

  • clb92@feddit.dk
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    3 days ago

    Does that get you a list of only the manually installed packages, or also include things that were automatically installed as part of something else?

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      3 days ago

      It does it if you do it right after the OS installation then whenever you plan to move on and diff the two.

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        3 days ago
        apt-mark showmanual
        

        Should only show you the packages that you’ve explicitly installed (i.e. were not installed as dependencies).

        If you installed meta packages (say, KDE Plasma) then it’ll mark each component of that install as manually installed.

        apt-mark minimize-manual
        

        Will mark the meta packages as auto instead of manual.

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        3 days ago

        You’re correct. All packages installed via dpkg/apt are on that list. What isn’t included are appimages, flatpacks, snaps and other non-dpkg software if you happen to have any.