I have some years of experience with linux (Mint/LMDE), but in Manjaro I’m a beginner, installed it for the first time a few weeks ago.
Now I’m wondering why pamac suggests “mhwd-nvidia” as an update. I found some more installed nvidia packages.
I only have AMD and no NVidia components in my pc, doesn’t Manjaro recognize the hardware during installation and only installs what is really needed?
If I see this correct, these nvidia relevant packages are only text files. But if these have already been installed, could this mean that there are more unneeded packages in the system?
Even if this may surprise you: most Linux distributions contain loads of files that have never been used on your system and that could possibly be deleted without it affecting your work. This includes support for different keyboard layouts, fonts, man pages, and much more. But the time required to optimize this away is immense. And woe betide if one of the 1000 files is ever needed.
A distribution is therefore always a collection of files that contains everything for the basic system that could be necessary to ensure that the system runs stably on as many computers as possible.
So if possible, don’t optimize too much. That always carries risks.
