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I'm going to mention
Ansible
as I haven't seen it mentioned, and it can be used to locally manage a reproducible build.It has already been mentioned, but as a minimum to replicate your system you need two things:
/home
directory as there is where the majority of the configuration files of your system pertaining the software you use (there could be configs you could need on/etc
and on/usr/local
or other dir), that is why it is recommended to partition your disk on installation of your distro, so the/home
directory is already separated, as if you reinstall in the same machine you don't lose any configuration in addition to your personal documents/pictures/etcThe truth is that using any of the tools in the second point requires learning a bunch, so if your skill level is still not there, there is some work to do to get there.
Oh for the love of god, don't. Ansible is 2002 technology used in 2024. It's so clunky and janky that I'm relieved I can get chatgpt to boilerplate my stuff and save me time actually staring at fucking YAML all day. Use Anything Else before your brain rots.
source: it's like half my day job now and I should've charged more.
What would you recommend that is not NixOS or a Bash script and can be used agnostic of distro?