Are you calling my 770 archaic?
Okay, what would _everything you need_ be? Video editor? Audio editor? A couple of apps come to mind that almost everybody would benefit from such as pdf reader, media player, web browser and text editor.
Well, for now, even though I'm trying not to install useless stuff (why would x11-apps require me to install gcc I wonder?) I'm concentrating on coming up with a usable system.