I have been thinking of writing some sort of utility for linux that keeps track of all my installed software and configuration. Something that after doing a fresh install I can just run it and will restore my copy of ubuntu as it used to be before doing the fresh install.
I do not know exactly where to start with this. I know that you can get a list of user installed software from dpkg -i | grep ii
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I would really appreciate any suggestions.
caja
&nautilus
(of which caja was forked) & keep different configs for each, thus the location is slightly different... Saving your $HOME is just easier, though directories like I mentioned would be my starting point.