I frequently reinstall Linux. Is there a tool to say what to install and configure that I can just run once after OS install? Things like
- Install neovim, signal, steam
- Configure firefox, desktop environment
I’m using this for just me, on my personal machine.
I don’t anticipate it’s possible between different distros, so assume I’m reinstalling the same distro.
EDIT: thanks for replies. I’m mostly seeing Ansible and NixOS. I’ll start looking at those.
I think the Archinstall script (that is part of the official Arch iso) can save the configuration, to reinstall with same setup again. But it does not go into details like your Firefox environment. Its there to setup the basic installation and eventually additional packages.