Use this file as a post-it for packages to install on laptop/desktop.

add notation about awk as
Select everything but the second field:
awk '!($2="")'

add notation about tr (translate command):
replace every newline with a single space: tr '\n' ' '

add notation about using find to list only files in current directory and NOT subdirectory:
find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f

add notation about using pick to parse through output, and pipe that using xargs to another command:
example:
ls | pick | xargs bat # will give you a choice of the files from ls, pick displays a menu to "pick" the file, which then is parsed to xargs bat (invokes bat on choice from ls | pick)

https://medium.com/techie-delight/top-25-algorithms-every-programmer-should-know-373246b4881b

Look up the select command (online, man page is not as helpful). It makes a nice simple selectio menu for your users in bash

Install expac

doas pacman -S expac

Install pkgtop

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SharUpOff/pkgtop/main/dist/pkgtop.sh -so - | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/pkgtop > /dev/null

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/pkgtop

Finally figured out how to get language servers working neovim, you have to npm install -g each of them from ~/.local/nvim/share/lsp-servers (note that there is still work to be done here...)

Download and install in virtmanager Windows 10 iso (for purposes of software tests)

Use this site (microsoft only has .exe now... 64 bit, version 21H2)
https://www.itechtics.com/windows-10-download-iso/

Install rustdesk-bin from aur (rustdesk by itself was not prepared correctly...)

paru rustdesk-bin

Install xfce4-screenshooter (it's just too useful by comparison to scrot...)

doas pacman -S xfce4-screenshooter