After installing your OS (Manjaro in my case) and configuring it to your likings, which directories do you backup? (or reverse-question, which directories do you not backup?)

TheLemming@feddit.de · edit-2 1 år siden

After installing your OS (Manjaro in my case) and configuring it to your likings, which directories do you backup? (or reverse-question, which directories do you not backup?)

MicroMacro@sh.itjust.works · 1 år siden

/etc and ~/.config in priority

iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee · 1 år siden

What is typically stored in /etc ?

vepro@iusearchlinux.fyi · 1 år siden

System wide configuration files

TheLemming@feddit.de · 1 år siden

Is it possible to tell my OS that it’s always going to have only 1 non-root user and relocate all the ~/.config into /etc?

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk · 1 år siden

You should not do that. Things can break. Your user configurations are stored in .config and Your System configurations stored in /etc/ are used by your system. I wouldn’t recommend it.

vepro@iusearchlinux.fyi · 1 år siden

Programs may read from /etc, but it’s not recommended. Instead, I recommend having your .config directory stored somewhere, or preferably, have all configs in a git repository (often called dotfiles) and deploy them on systems for example with stow

stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi · 1 år siden

It’s like .config but system wide. It stands for Editable Text Configuration. Some examples is config for Sudo, Grub, X11 or SDDM.