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All my dotfiles are in a git repo.

Whenever I'm doing a fresh install, I simply download all my most-used packages and rsync the dot files.

I'm planning on investing some time and setting up Ansible so I only have to install python and it does the rest for me.

HTH

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Whenever something isn't installable through the package manager I check if it's feasible to install in `$HOME`. Most of the times it is, therefore rsync'ing home directories works surprisingly well. (Especially on work computers which I keep much more tidy than my non-work computers)

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