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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's an investment for the next time you install on a new dev machine. After install, I will literally run a single command to return to the exact state of my dev environment.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Sure but how often do you need to actually change your machine?

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  • Probably not often, but as a Debian user, it's a PITA to get back to where I was before I fucked up my system. Nix(OS) sounds like a future investment to me, just in case I ever fuck up and need to get back to where I was ASAP. Been there once already and it was NOT fun.

    That was from a professional standpoint BTW, privately I'm still a dirty Windows pleb, because that's what I'm most familiar with.

    PS: I'm already using a dotfiles repo, which already saves me a ton of time in settings things up.

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