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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's an investment for the next time you install on a new dev machine. After install, I will literally run a single command to return to the exact state of my dev environment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Sure but how often do you need to actually change your machine?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Me personally, a lot. I work on 4 different rigs (inlcuding latops) and yes, for me, it does save time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

About weekly in my case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Probably not often, but as a Debian user, it's a PITA to get back to where I was before I fucked up my system. Nix(OS) sounds like a future investment to me, just in case I ever fuck up and need to get back to where I was ASAP. Been there once already and it was NOT fun.

That was from a professional standpoint BTW, privately I'm still a dirty Windows pleb, because that's what I'm most familiar with.

PS: I'm already using a dotfiles repo, which already saves me a ton of time in settings things up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm actually building a new work station right now.