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Sophie The Lionhart

I get what you mean there, but I'm not talking about setting up deployment servers. I'm talking about setting up my local environment. Like I buy a new computer or wipe my hard drive or something and want to get up and running again. Things like installing my IDEs, setting up my .bashrc, installing things like spotify or slack, and other utilities like gedit or 'bat' or 'exa'.

For the projects I will use docker for sure. I don't think I can set up my local machine using docker though can I?

Also if not, I actually decided to go the Ansible route so far and have it almost working already. Just having some ppa issues and also an issue with snaps on crostini that it was too late to try and fix when I encountered it last night.

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dallgoot

you're right Docker means containers not your host machine so its only use, for your needs is the environment for code.

Setting up your OS is another topic and i believe there (probably) are tools to customize the distro you are using.

BUT going with Ansible for that is a good idea :)