Move the content of your home folder to a new subfolder, pick the bits you need and delete the subfolder?
yeah but leftover packages are a mess... but that's a way to deal with the home stuff you are right.
There might be some installation logs that show what you manually installed.
@ransomwarelettuce Restore your backup?
If it came preconfigured with your IT account, then asked them to install this image again. And ask them, how to handle this sort of situation in the future.
Yeah I think it will have to come to that, I am usually my own IT guy and did not want to bother our DevOps/IT guy which is loaded with other more important stuff.
But it will have to come to that once it becomes somewhat unbearable.
Will ask him for a backup policy though now that you point that out.
I my personal machine I got a btrfs volume just for that I could replicate that.
I hope to get corrected but is using a fresh user home directory as a base and reinstalling all the software you need a bad idea ? or even just use a new user completely?
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