As good and stable as Linux Mint is, it still needs a feature/application that automatically synchronizes multiple computers running Linux Mint.
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Can you name another OS that does this? It’s unclear if you mean like configuration files or if you install application X on workstation 1 - you expect that workstation 2 would then sync and have application X?
That won’t happen on mint anytime soon. It may be somewhat achievable on ostree/OCI distros like fedora silverblue but even there it’s difficult.
I guess you simply want a backup and sync feature on the end user level. You could look into syncthing and sync whatever you want to have synced.
I like syncthing to sync folders on my devices
Wouldn’t rsync be able to do this if their on the same network?
Is this like the thing where if you have a computer running Steam in your network, other computers download game updates from the first computer instead of over the internet?
That can be done with Apt-Cacher NG. It’s a proxy server that caches .deb packages. It really speeds up updates if you have multiple computers that are using the same packages.
Awesome, thanks for the info!
I’d love such a feature on Linux, but I don’t think it’s happening anytime soon.
Nix or Guix would be the most integrated / low level implementation of something like this.
The whole OS and configuration is defined & can be synced, snapshotted, forked etc.
You might want to look at this one to sync your home folder: https://freefilesync.org/vision.php and then use ssh for system updates. There are no OSes that do this kind of synchronization except maybe NixOS.
It does. RTFM.
Which one ?
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