Earlier this year, I built a new PC and it’s running Ubuntu. I’ve been installing various apps and configuring them since then. Now, I realize I don’t have any way of knowing what I would want to reinstall, if I (for instance) lost this drive somehow.

How do you keep track of what you’ve installed/ your favorite apps?

Separately, how can I backup the configurations I’m using right now.

Thanks!

  • davad
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    11 year ago

    A dot files repo for some basic config and an Ansible repo to stand everything up. This applies to both my Linux and MacOS machines.

    All the people taking about their NixOS setups had me thinking of giving that a try, though.