Earlier this year, I built a new PC and it’s running Ubuntu. I’ve been installing various apps and configuring them since then. Now, I realize I don’t have any way of knowing what I would want to reinstall, if I (for instance) lost this drive somehow.
How do you keep track of what you’ve installed/ your favorite apps?
Separately, how can I backup the configurations I’m using right now.
Thanks!
Install fresh copy of Linux OS on a new device. Install the apps I know I need like browser, code editor, etc.
Use device.
Realize “oh crap I forgot to install X!”
Install X
Repeat until all X have been installed.
Lol, pretty much what I’ve done in the past. And yep, it works, eventually.
Plus backup
/homeand/etc, maybe/optas well.Also works as a way to remove programs you are not really using anymore but had installed before. And although more annoying but I guess resetting configuration files to default settings every now and then is not too bad either.