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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What's the best way to restore your desktop environment after install? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Jamie
Using a dotfiles manager makes it a little easier to avoid, even if it's just GNU Stow.
@muddybulldog

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stow is good and I’d recommend it for someone starting out. By the time I found about it I had already written a silly amount of code from scratch to accomplish effectively the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@muddybulldog
After using a small install script of my own for a while, I switched to yadm. It's nice because it's a shell script, so no need to compile on different architectures/UNIXen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this. Someone else has mentioned this a while back and I completely forgot what it was called. Which is ironic given what the acronym stands for. I’ll give it a second look.