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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  • etchinghillside@reddthat.com
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    7 hours ago

    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?

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    7 hours ago

    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.

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    6 hours ago

    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?

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 hours ago

      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.