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Thanks. This can solve data and config mobility pretty nicely. For large amounts of (media) data an external 2.5" hd works pretty nicely.

For applications, it seems to depend a lot on the OS. Is there a good/easy way to track what apps/package have been installed (for Debian/Ubuntu e.g.)? How could I take replicable snapshots/images of my system (without user data)?

Would something like this even be possible on windows (since it doesn't have a package manager and installs stuff all over the place)?

The next level of hardware independence would be having a system on a USB device to be able to boot into it on different machines (e.g. a light notebook and a gaming desktop) using the same system on both.