Bankenstein

It’s Lua.

Sofia Sans, JetBrains Mono/Iosevka/Fira Code, noto-fonts-emoji if you want emoji to work, maybe Atkinson Hyperlegible if that’s your thing

Brendan Eich is a bit of a twat. Not that Mitchell Baker is much better.

Note to everyone (like me) who didn’t immediately understand this was satire:

This is satire.

Aperture Laboratories

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Garuda is definitely the right choice for your use case.

EndeavourOS, formerly pure Arch btw.

Used both. Dislike both. Now on i3.

Move all your heavily modified config files into a git repository and host it somewhere. Then symlink all your config files to where they should be with ln -s ~/.config/whatever ~/gitrepo/whatever. That’s how you preserve your important configs.

You can easily get a list of your installed packages (which you can keep in your repository) with apt list --installed > packages.txt. You can then format that list to one you can install from with sed -e "s-/.*$--" <packages.txt (or something, i don’t have apt, can’t test it fully).

In fact, if someone here is more familiar with apt, please find a way to filter out packages that were not explicitly installed and reply to this comment with your solution.

there is a straight up 2b4y, yes.