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Re:A configuration management system for pets, not cattle by JamesSwift on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:32PM (#33427083)
Well I use nix so its tracked in git and I can mostly rely on data-only backups then. It makes it so much easier to have multiple laptops (e.g. I have a "completely personal" and "contract work" laptop which have a lot of overlap but are not the same).
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Re:A configuration management system for pets, not cattle by lamontcg on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:52PM (#33428087)
> It makes it so much easier to have multiple laptops

You're getting away from having a pet then.

And once you consider that you might have a third laptop for something work related and be able to duplicate the base configuration then you no longer have pets and you just need configuration management.

That isn't even the common use case of most IT professionals, much less most laptop users.

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