I am currently trying to keep track of my config files in a repo to be able to get the configa back together easily if/when I change distro, but I am not sure if that’s the best way or if I should be using some tool to help me since I some programs keep preferences in other directories other then $HOME (at least I think so). Can you guys share with me your must used/trusted simple process for this?

Thank you and specially thanks to everyone who is being helpful in this community for the past few weeks, I’ve learned much and got some very useful tips from the comments in my posts and in other people posts too.

  • @InverseParallax
    1•1 year ago

    Git clone, cd repo, bin/makelinks.sh

    <pkg tool> install zsh tmux lsb_release

    Relogin, environment works, aliases make everything distro/os agnostic again (spend a lot of time in freebsd and osx), next step is optionally adding ssh key to Auth server to make it privileged, otherwise it’s just an insecure drone.

    Edit: this last hop was to a much beefier machine on clean debian vs a half-broken proxmox desktop, my lxc scripts have reached the point that proxmox is a hindrance especially with fast vm gfx, but I was lazy and just copied my .mozilla directory.

    Amazing, worked flawlessly, my ff configuration is complex with tons of containers and add-ons, they just magically worked and I was still logged in to my websites, I was stunned, keeping that trick from now on.