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by stackzero 2500 days ago
Most of those tools are built around the "cattle not pets" idea but a PC is a pet. Best way IMO is some dotfiles and a bash script, OS installation part is pretty quick, unless you running arch- but even that can be automated
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> Most of those tools are built around the "cattle not pets" idea

That's true, but not in a way which makes them inapplicable elsewhere. They are essential to support the “cattle not pets” approach, but most of them aren't intimately tied to it.