• Count Regal Inkwell
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    11 year ago

    It’s not about being afraid.

    Customizing takes time and effort, which I’d rather use like.

    Doing stuff?

    Unless I want to re-customize it to be something else, I’d rather not re-make my entire set-up. I figured out what the relevant files were to how my whole set-up (DE look & behaviour, dotfiles for like fish and nvim) and copied it all to a USB Drive that I just drop onto my home folder whenever I install my OS on a new computer.

    • @dmrzl@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Yes, but recreation of any customization takes minutes if you use the correct distribution.

      For example my root and home are on a tmpfs and therefore get deleted on every boot. Recreating every file in my system is done every boot, so reinstalling == booting (pretty much, partitioning is still manual).

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          1 year ago

          https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/

          When you regularly create and destroy a few dozen servers you care about reproducibility of installations and configurations. But even when you only have your home pc your drive can die at any point and you don’t want to figure out again how to fix that weird bug you once had or realize that you missed your docker images in your backup regimen.

          If you nuke my pc from orbit I have it set up again in 10mins. Exactly. Every single file.