I’ve been dual-booting since the early-oughts, but I’m only just now preparing to delete my Windows partition for good.

What with all the repartitioning in my future, I figure it’s a good time to just make a clean start - reinstall from scratch. …but I have about a decade’s worth of tools and dotfile tweaks accumulated, including things like updates to xorg.conf to support my old (but awesome) mouse.

So… What’s your favored toolset to get your machine back to the way you like it?

I’ve done this all manually many a time, backing up my home dir, writing scripts to install software, copy important config files into place, etc.

How do you like to go about reinstalling your programs, restoring .dotfiles and config?

  • swordsmanluke@programming.devOP
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    1 year ago

    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. 😁

    • Illiterate Domine@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been using chezmoi for 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.