and also only once you've invested the multiple weekends of migrating your whole setup and config to a completely new syntax/concept and invest the necessary time and brainpower to learn everything related.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (12 children)

And your extraordinary result after all that is… exactly what you would've gotten in a few minutes downloading another distro.

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (10 children)

However, you then don't have to mentally remember every change you made when you eventually migrate to a new machine or replicate your setup across your laptop and desktop while keeping them synchronized. It takes me a few hours to setup and verify that everything is how I need on a normal distro, though that may be a byproduct of my system requirements. Re-patching and packaging kernel modules on Debian for odd hardware is not fun, nor is manually fixing udev and firewall rules for the same projects again and again.

[–] gudu@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

Same story. Ssd of my machine for work crashed and after the replacement I was ready for work with everything customized and configured 30 minutes later.

A new node for my cluster arrives? 30 minutes later the new one is setup and integrated in my k8s home setup. Reusing complete profiles combined with files for hardware specifics.

I can even upgrades major versions fearlessly and had 0 problems the last years.

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