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It’s at that scale that system reproducibility becomes important enough to offset the downsides. For everyone else, home-manager and a list of packages are more than enough. The learning curve is not that bad, it’s just that the resources are a pile of burning garbage. Also, idk what you’re doing with VLC, but ~/.config should still work AFAIK.