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What's the best way to restore your desktop environment after install?
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I'm a /home on separate drive/partition kind of guy. I like it just following my installs. Though seeing some using guix/nixos to create a config for my desktop has got me wanting to spend a weekend trying that out.
That's been my approach too, but I've reached ten plus years of God knows what in my dotfiles. It's time for a clean reinstall. 😁
I've been using
chezmoifor dotfile management and have been really happy with it. You can directly import existing files to get started and template out any differences between systems.The rest, ansible for any sufficiently complex enough setup at the moment. Good for integration work with LDAP, etc if your using that. Again may play around with guix on that front.
I was just thinking yesterday when looking at how NixOS works. The config file seems to be quite reminiscent of an Ansible Playbook. I mean maybe I'm way off the mark, I haven't really dug into Nix much yet.
Guix/nix seem very powerful. The reproducibility is something ansible just isn't built to same level robustness for, which makes them seem very promising to me.