I got fed up hand-tweaking my environment, but instead of forgoing creature comforts, I started managing my laptop exclusively through configuration management

I got fed up hand-tweaking my environment, but instead of forgoing creature comforts, I started managing my laptop exclusively through configuration management and version control. When I got a second laptop last year, within an hour it had my python development tools, desktop wallpaper, browser plugins, wifi passwords, and the master branches of my most recent git repos cloned into $HOME. No more taking weeks to hunt down all the tweaks and utilities I need. Automation takes effort, but having a consistent reproducible environment has been well worth the effort!