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Move all your heavily modified config files into a git repository and host it somewhere. Then symlink all your config files to where they should be with
ln -s ~/.config/whatever ~/gitrepo/whatever. That's how you preserve your important configs.You can easily get a list of your installed packages (which you can keep in your repository) with
apt list --installed > packages.txt. You can then format that list to one you can install from withsed -e "s-/.*$--" <packages.txt(or something, i don't have apt, can't test it fully).In fact, if someone here is more familiar with apt, please find a way to filter out packages that were not explicitly installed and reply to this comment with your solution.
This combined with
stowcommand makes it very simple to "install" your system configuration on a new machine.