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Discussion on: I hate setting up my dev environment.

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DrBearhands

Maybe Nix or even NixOs is a solution for you?
Can't speak from personal experience (I change my setup more often than I copy it), but I've heard good things.

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Ben Lovy

I can speak from personal experience - its my current daily driver. The only downside is that now I'm scared to manage my configs any other way, which is silly. Nix really does take a lot of pain out of this. My desktop and laptop can stay completely in sync, environment-wise, and I only need to maintain a single config which covers the whole system. Should I decide to wipe and re-install, it's a one-click operation.