Ansible. I maintain 4 workstations (3 Linux, 1 Windows) from the same config. It's a bit overkill but it has the flexibility to deal with the hardware and OS differences.
Linux is essentially automatic. Install OS using custom arch-iso build. Download Ansible config repo. Run playbook.
Windows is a bit more rough. Ansible runs in WSL connecting to the host via ssh.
For work I just fork my personal config, add changes needed for work environment in a private repo. I can pull upstream changes and rebase easily.
Main downside is it's a bit verbose, and I still need manual steps to converge certain types of changes (like deleting/moving configs) because I don't want to write even more code to do that.
Having all the additional steps in a role and not just config files is extremely useful when revisiting a configuration years later.
For development, I usually just use Git to synchronize changes. Syncthing is useful sometimes.
Linux is essentially automatic. Install OS using custom arch-iso build. Download Ansible config repo. Run playbook.
Windows is a bit more rough. Ansible runs in WSL connecting to the host via ssh.
For work I just fork my personal config, add changes needed for work environment in a private repo. I can pull upstream changes and rebase easily.
Main downside is it's a bit verbose, and I still need manual steps to converge certain types of changes (like deleting/moving configs) because I don't want to write even more code to do that.
Having all the additional steps in a role and not just config files is extremely useful when revisiting a configuration years later.
For development, I usually just use Git to synchronize changes. Syncthing is useful sometimes.