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?

    • LokidawgEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      ++. Yes, and not your standard Linux distro in design, never mind the hurdle of understanding Nix expressions and functional programming language. However, once tweaked, deployment on multiple machines is straightforward.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      replicable.

      As someone who spent time in OS Build/Relmgmt before security, I have a pressing desire to play the “how do you know” game, here.

      • Atemu
        3·
        3 months ago

        Because the only way to have a functioning NixOS system is to have it be reproducible. That’s the only way it works; Nix is reproducible by design.

        The ability to reproduce a system implies the ability to replicate it.

      • MyNameIsRichard
        1·
        3 months ago

        Various Internet strangers (who I trust implicitly) have said that it’s so.