I'm wondering how I can persist my perfect configured desktop system.I have- installed a fresh new debian- installed all my applications and tools I need (from vim to eclipse)- override my systems bashrc/-.profile etc- installed and configured my wm (fluxbox and themes)So now this was a lot of work and Im looking for a way to save /export that state. I want to be able to recover my system after a reinstall or dublicate it (in case of using it in VMs).I was thinking of exporting the list of installed packages as well as some dot-files but im not sure, that this is the best choice. What would you recomend?
Save a perfect configured desktop
backup;administration;persistence
If you did it correctly then all your changes are in your $HOME. Just copy that $HOME folder around and your done. If you don't want to copy the entire folder then ~/.local/config is a good place to start, but your better off just copying over the entire folder.