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How have you automated configuring your machines in terms of packages and dotfiles so it works cross-distro?

I’m looking for interesting tools to automate managing packaging and configuring everything automated.

And yeah I know about NixOS but I like to distro hop and experiment so I for now know these:

  • Ansible - automating many machines, using different package names as vars and package managers.
  • Bash - the most native and compatible scripting language that can be.
  • Chezmoi - for dotfiles.

For now that’s it. I’m looking forward for your suggestions!

hperrin ,

I’ve tried to move as much as I can into Flatpak. That way I can just copy my .var folder, and all my apps are migrated.

For other things like my configs, I use a git repo.

PlexSheep ,

I haven’t. But having my home dir be a git repo helps a great deal. The rest I install when I need it

F04118F ,

chezmoi does basically that, without actually making your home dir a git repo, it just syncs it. It also supports templating and per-machine differences. Pretty cool really.

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