Ask HN: How do you sync your computers development configurations/environment?
by baalimago on Hacker News.
I have two personal computers and one work laptop, all of which have similar development environment but not the same. One personal computer runs windows, the other two Ubuntu. Since I knew that I will be using different IDEs and environments, I decided to learn vim and use vim bindings in all my IDEs to ensure some sort of similarity across all my development environments, but it doesn’t cover it all. I’ve also tried manually migrating my home directory between different computers, but that comes with several issues, primarily that I’d have to try to share it between professional and personal computers.
So what I’m left with is basically remembering what I’m using, and then tediously spend a day or more re-configuring newly installed computers with the software and configurations I know I’m using. It feels like I have to throw away my perfectly configured hammer which I know by heart and get a new one every time I work at a different workplace instead of bringing it along and perfecting it further. Surely there’s a better way. How do you keep your development environments/ways of working synced and backed up?