This isn't idiocy, this is the infancy of automation! What if you could get Ann entirely new PC and then you could run "a thing" on it to completely provision and configure all your settings and files just how you want it?!?
This thing already exists, it's free, and easy to learn.
Welcome to the wonderful and exciting world of ANSIBLE!
It's called "Configuration Management", and in the world of ANSIBLE, you write playbooks and those playbook execute tasks.
If you're interested to know more, let me know. Aside from being a big fan of Ansible, it's also literally my day job.
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Thanks,
Alexander
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what I mean by easier is if I have to reinstall the OS/get a new computer it is easier to write it into a text file, save it in gmail as a draft, and then open up that draft if I need it. I have a LOT of drafts like this. Commands, paragraphs that I have to repeat, stuff like that. You might think I'm an idiot but let my idiocy inspire you!
as for doing this graphically I think it is easier to copy-n-paste into a terminal:
sudo apt-mark hold package1 package2 package3
Look at what I just discovered: The apt-mark hold <package> command is used to prevent a specific package from being upgraded on Debian-based systems.
I hated waiting for firefox to update! (I don't use ff) Could we start a list of other big packages that don't need to be updated?
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