Looking for a distribution that I could replicate from one computer to another - eviltoast

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?

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 month ago

    It’s hard to say whether it’s difficult or not coming into it already knowing how to program

    More people than not struggle to come to terms with what a variable is let alone all the stuff you can do in nix

    There are definitely other hard parts, but I didn’t want to write a wall of text lol

    • Atemu@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 month ago

      While that’s certainly true, using NixOS usually does not involve many advanced concepts or requires you to understand them.

      You can set foo = bar in a .conf file without knowing what a variable is either.