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?) (feddit.de)

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

/etc and ~/.config in priority

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

What is typically stored in /etc ?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

System wide configuration files

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

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