New Feature: Most Used/Popular/Common Apps Landing Page for first time installs.

[spicyramentt (veermaharaj)]

Simply, when setting up a machine for the first time, searching for and finding every app you want to install one by one is a pain in the a$$. Firefox being the worst of the worst given how many regional versions and nightly and so on and your search wording needs to be exact or you won't find it.

My suggestion, particularly for people running Uniget for the first time is a Home Page, (this could just be shown on the Discover Packages page with all the blank real-estate we have there), with a checklist of the most downloaded/popular/common apps in various app categories. So: Internet>Firefox, Chrome, Brave, etc Multimedia>VLC, MPC-HC, HandBreak, etc and you simply select the ones that apply to that particular machine and hit install once.

This would go a long way to streamlining first time machine setups or discovering what apps are popular in the community.

I know package bundles are a thing, but just throwing this out as something less complicated for first time users.

[Gabriel Dufresne (GabrielDuf)]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I can definitely see the value of having a "getting started" page with a selection of common applications grouped by category. It would make setting up a new machine much faster and could help new users discover software they might otherwise miss.

One thing I'm curious about is how you would like to see this work in practice. Would you imagine it as a curated list maintained by the project, or as something driven by package popularity?

One implementation challenge is that UnigetUI supports multiple package managers, and users can have different combinations of sources enabled. Because of that, generating a dynamic or personalized list that works reliably for everyone may not be straightforward.

I'd be interested to hear how you envision the user experience.