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> I was unable to replicate my setup on another machine, so I always had e.g. my laptop "ugly", and my main machine pretty.

> It's two config files. I copy them around and all my systems look and behave the same.

I recommend managing your dotfiles with git. This guide[1] helped me getting started, but I suggest writing a small script that you can wget then run on a fresh machine and be up running within seconds. This way it won't matter if you have 2 or 200 config files, mine also installs the tools I use, some built from source.

[1]: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles




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