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This is very bad advice. The point of Arch is to install what you need because you have learned why you need it.

Installing random packages because an Internet blog says you should? Many of these are specific to what choices you have made on your computer.

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I have a list of explicitly installed packages through pacman, put it in a plaintext file, and then install those on a new Arch Linux that is supposed to be used for desktop use.

The most issues I have is related to Nvidia drivers because I need an old one. I think it is from AUR as well.

It explicitly states that that is not the intended use for it. If you use it like that it's your bad.

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