First I used debian packages and maintained a (multiarch!) repository to setup my computers, then I used Ansible and had to first install Python and SSH on ever

First I used debian packages and maintained a (multiarch!) repository to setup my computers, then I used Ansible and had to first install Python and SSH on every machine, now I just run a script and I'm done in a few minutes and very few manual steps. I found Ansible for personal computers to be brittle and cumbersome as reinstalls are usually for OS upgrades and those tend to have breaking changes.