Hey all! Thought I’d start this discussion to see how you all go about customizing your systems.

I’ve been using a mostly default system for a while, both on my work and personal laptops, because at a certain point the whole customization thing just became too much work, I lost configs and I never really felt like spending much time on it anymore.

At a point I might’ve had a cool look going, but I was never able to get all of my programs using it correctly (GTK vs QT problems if I remember correctly), there was no good obvious way to backup my configs and transitioning them to a new system.

And I know that some tools have popped up in the meantime to make this whole process easier, but being away from it all for a while, I’m sure whatever used to be cool a few years ago has been replaced by something else now.

So I’m interested to know how you go about customizing your systems.

  • Do you use any tools to auto generate configs or color schemes?

  • What is your general workflow when you start customizing?

  • Do you use any backup methods and keep your rices stored/archived, or do you just toss everything out and start anew whenever you feel bored?

  • When you set up a new system or distro, do you immediately customize the hell out of it, or do you slowly change things as you go?

Cheers!

  • ash
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    31 year ago

    My answers to your questions in order:

    • No.
    • No workflow.
    • I have periodic backups of the entire system, but I do not organize my configs or anything like that.
    • I only customize the install on my laptop and it is over time, I do not install different distros on it, just the same install ever since I got it. On any other install I usually use the defaults.
    • tablesOP
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      21 year ago

      I’m curious, what distro do you have on your laptop?

      • ImRev
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        1 year ago

        Its the overused, bleeding edge one (you know what i meant). Prob will switch to endeavouros/nix though