For keeping the system lightweight it is recommended to only have installed what you frequently use. As installing anything else when needed is instant.

You can suggest modifications in the issues list. Just keep in mind that they should be the kind of applications that many non developers will be using, and not installed by default.

Drivers

• ⚙️ Nvidia GPU acceleration: Use the recommended driver in the table here, dkms edition. If it’s for a laptop also install optimus-manager.

Games

• 🎮 Gaming platform: steam

• 🪟 Windows and Dos compatibility: exeCute

Graphics

• 🖥️ Display color calibration: displaycal + colord-kde

• 🖊️ Illustration and vector graphics: inkscape

• 🎨 Image and photo edition: gimp-skull-toon

Internet

• 🌐 File syncing and backup: syncthingtray

Multimedia

• 🔊 Audio analysis and calibration: friture

• 📻 Audio conversion: soundconverter

• 🎛️ Audio edition: audacity

• 🎙️ Audio recording: krecorder

• 💿 CD/DVD/BluRay disc recording: k3b

• 🎻 Music organization and tagging: strawberry, tageditor

• 📼 Video conversion: optimizeVideo, handbrake

• 🎥 Video editing: kdenlive

• 📷 Webcam and screen-casting: obs-studio

• ⏬ YouTube downloads: yt-dlp

Office

• 📔 eBook reading: calibre

• 🔡 Font comparison: opcion

• 🔤 Fonts: google-fonts, radis-sans

• ✍️ Office suite: libreoffice-skull-simplified + libreoffice-still-* + hunspell-* + hyphen-* (where * is your language)

Utilities

• 🏷️ Batch file renaming: krename

• 📥 Bootable USB installation drives: ventoy

• ⌨️ On-screen virtual keyboard: onboard-theme-glory + mousetweaks

• 💽 Partition and disk management and benchmarking : gnome-disk-utility

• 🖨️ Printing: system-config-printer + cups-pdf, gutenprint, hplip

• 📠 Scanning: skanlite