After installing your OS (Manjaro in my case) and configuring it to your likings, which directories do you backup? (or reverse-question, which directories do you _not_ backup?) - eviltoast
    • TheLemming@feddit.deOP
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      1 year ago

      Is it possible to tell my OS that it’s always going to have only 1 non-root user and relocate all the ~/.config into /etc?

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        1 year ago

        You should not do that. Things can break. Your user configurations are stored in .config and Your System configurations stored in /etc/ are used by your system. I wouldn’t recommend it.

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        1 year ago

        Programs may read from /etc, but it’s not recommended. Instead, I recommend having your .config directory stored somewhere, or preferably, have all configs in a git repository (often called dotfiles) and deploy them on systems for example with stow