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Looking for a distribution that I could replicate from one computer to another (sh.itjust.works)

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been a happy user of Fedora Workstation since Fedora 36 on my Surface Go 1.

I really enjoy Gnome and everything is set up the way I want to.

Since I was really happy with my setup I just wanted to be able to replicate it easily through Clonezilla so that I could port it on any future computer I’d get.

Sadly, even with the help of really helpful and knowledgeable users on Lemmy, it hasn’t worked (https://sh.itjust.works/post/25963065).

So now I’m left wondering if there could be a distribution that I’d enjoy and which would be easy to deploy on another computer as I’d hate to have to configure everything on every computer I’d get.

I love Gnome but I wouldn’t be against trying something else if necessary.

What distribution could meet my needs?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

NixOS. A big learning curve but replicable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

++. Yes, and not your standard Linux distro in design, never mind the hurdle of understanding Nix expressions and functional programming language. However, once tweaked, deployment on multiple machines is straightforward.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

replicable.

As someone who spent time in OS Build/Relmgmt before security, I have a pressing desire to play the "how do you know" game, here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Because the only way to have a functioning NixOS system is to have it be reproducible. That's the only way it works; Nix is reproducible by design.

The ability to reproduce a system implies the ability to replicate it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Various Internet strangers (who I trust implicitly) have said that it's so.