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Looking for a distribution that I could replicate from one computer to another (self.linux)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]

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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] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you just make a base image and then clone the image across. You would need to change the machine ID but that's pretty easy to do.

Alternatively you could use Ansible pull on a fresh install to set everything up

[–] Dariusmiles2123 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How can you just make a base image and change the machine ID?

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

You install it and then save a copy of the disk. This is very similar to a VM template so I will just link instructions for that. The difference is you are using physical hardware.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/704084/deleting-etc-machine-id-in-ubuntu-minimal-cloudimg-for-proxmox-template