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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I like syncthing to sync folders on my devices
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.
Wouldn’t rsync be able to do this if their on the same network?
It does. RTFM.
Which one ?
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.
