There is rural US and urban US . Each is trying to shove its way of life down the other ' s throat . It ' s a little more nuanced than that , but look at the election maps by county and the division is clear . personal . umich . edu ~ mejnelection 2016 <| sep |> I keep all my custom services and configs in a folder as well , but use a bash script to restore files to their place and install programs and start services on a new install . After years of running btrfs raid arrays with snapshots I can ' t imagine going back to a normal system . I recently found myself having to install Windows on a new computer after a week of running ddrescue to recover data from a relatives bad hard drive . I was appalled at the sluggishness and lack of feedback of the OS . During updates it included a progress bar that didn ' t show progress , and for several hours there was no noticeable cpu or network usage , just the initial update took nearly 2 days , I could have easily configured and compiled a complete Gentoo system before Windows could update it ' s running OS .