I use Aptik to install all of my extra software and settings on a new install. Aptik clones my complete system, including software, documents, downloads, pictures, and all settings. I was happy to pay $23. It saves me hours of writing down and installing each software package and then the settings for each. With the Aptik image file, all I have to do in the new install is use the terminal to navigate to the image file on an external drive and run the install binary. It does the install and the new install includes Aptik itself. I have quite a complicated number of settings that do just exactly what I want. Without Aptik, that would take a lot of time.
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