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Reclaiming the desktop: Why I’m still on Linux in 2026
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Better still, in the Nix world there's https://github.com/nix-community/plasma-manager which allows you to set up all the settings exactly once, and then auto-apply them on all the machines!
I use chezmoi and chezmoi_modify_manager to keep my dotfiles (including some KDE configs) in a Git repo, and it works well enough.
I tend to just copy my dotfiles over between machines. I'm not a fan of declarative management and even less of immutable OS'es.