Yeah, I don’t understand system backups anymore. I keep everything I care about in a single directory and clone that to the cloud. I no longer need to worry about backups outside of this. It’s easy enough to install a fresh OS and restore my directory. I’ll need to install a few apps but I’ll also have a nice clean system to work with.
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And if you have many apps and don't treat your carefully edited configs as dirt, you'll understand it'd be a giant waste of time to recreate from scratch
I don’t carefully edit any configs. I try to be productive with the default/recommended configuration as much as possible, and be flexible when things change rather than fight to restore the familiar behavior. Otherwise you’re constantly fighting a lonely battle.
You don't need to fight anything, yo can be just as flexible, just starting from a much better base that the defaults. But this is not about you, but the inability to understand the value of backing up apps and their configs
You cannot be productive with the default configuration. You’re just telling it to yourself, but it really sucks.
Are you sure you measured your net productivity, deducting the config editing and the evangelism?
What are key configuration that needs to be changed?
Prevent taskbar from collapsing apps into a single icon.