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...