I have always tried to have the ''perfect home setup'' with important and needed features for any advanced linux user ''(normal users can found very interesting tips)'', actually I have a new and even better setup, everytime more near to the perfection (very possible never reachable), but this setup includes a thousand of nice features, there's a few examples:
 * Encryption of all my data
 * Everything ''on the home of my user'', nothing on the system anymore
 * History (based on home-vcs) of the data that will be interesting to maintain an ''history''
 * Branches, useful to ''switch'' to another mode, this can be an ''older version/release'' of something (''Elive'', there), or simply another different project
 * Lots of automatizations

If you found that these things will be interesting for you, then continue reading...