[seer]

I’ve found that with a good dotfiles[1] setup + cloud storage, it is better to just reset the whole system and re-install whatever is needed.

The ability to do that is actually quite powerful as both disaster recovery and getting new hardware - it is in my mind so much cleaner to just install everything again. The built in migration tools have always done too little or too much for my taste. Dotfiles feel just right.

Funny enough hkdobrev introduced me to this philosophy almost 15years ago which I still use to this day and try to spread wherever I am. Thank you!

[1] https://github.com/webpro/awesome-dotfiles

[voidfunc]

Yep this is my setup. I'm a Windows/WSL2 or Linux-native person depending on machine but I basically have my system tune-up automated. The Windows+WSL2 one is a little more finicky because I haven't really desired to deep-dive on PowerShell but otherwise I can basically provision new machines really quickly for myself and it's just so much easier than maintaining a long-lived system.