How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. I am currently hand buliding devaun to replace my ubuntu boxes. I havent had to rebuild an ubuntu box in 3 years.....so over automation just becasue seems to be a waste of time. Course if someone kicks in my door and takes all my shit, well, I am somewhat fucked. I do have backups, encrypted blobs, offsite, and on ssd and spinning disks co-located. most all of the linux shit, I only rebuild for the giggles, to test and deploy new solutions. Maybe I should automate more.....I continue to just write bash scripts to do all the heavy lifting for most of the common shit I install. Moving from one distribution to another that don't work exaclty perfect....so I have to modify it. as I said I want a gui on my servers because I am lazy and want to sit there sometimes to do the work (get away from the noise of the tv). So still trying to land on the best devaun gui, none which I like using budgie as Its clean and the icons are in the make sense places, as I daily drive macos. I have 2 notebooks running budgie for travel and the lady.....don't wnat to upset that apple cart.....so if I move her, it needs to look the same. Ubuntu does some custom shit to budgie that budgie off the shelf dosent visually have.....yeah, run plank, and just modify....well thats harder and takes time. I'd like out of the box iso to just be spiffy and pretty enough to get by. One can hope.