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Most interesting. Did you feel confident you wouldn't mess up your work laptop too catastrophically?



100%. I did already have another laptop that I used until this one became stable. Now I feel it's more stable and useful than my previous one though. It actually helps rather than hinders when it comes to avoiding messups and catastrophic mistakes. Each time you deploy, it creates a snapshot, so you can always roll back if you mess something up. And as you update your config, your system gets progressively more stable and to your liking. And it's forever, since it's just text files stored in a repo. I feel like it achieves the same thing as Chromebooks do, except without the involvement of a centralized corp. My laptop is my data rather than the hardware itself. You do need to backup anything stateful though, but I don't have much stateful data on my machine other than some code in my home folder which is already backed up in git.




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