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submitted 4 months ago by Flory_Johnny@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Hello, i would like to know how you manage your dotfiles.

Do you use some gui or tui?

There are many ways i don't what to do.

Probably im going to do git repo with lazygit. I like tuis. I am managing files on two artix linux systems 1- pc and 2- laptop

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[-] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Git repo that I sync with my raspberry pi. You never know if some of the dotfiles contain sensitive info so I like to keep them on machines that only I can access

[-] flyhunter@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Recently learned about dotbot and it is perfect for me. Had a custom script to manage stow before.

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

I don't understand what to manage about dotfiles. You mean backups?

[-] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In my case, I use several different types of machines: Personal Linux desktop, personal low end Linux laptop, remote servers where I have sudo, work Mac, shared remote work servers where I don’t have sudo. I want my setup to be basically the same everywhere so that my muscle memory works, but there are some things that also need to be a bit different for each. Hence, a dot files manager that lets me run one command to keep my environment consistent in all those different targets. I use chezmoi + git for it nowadays.

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[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Git + Guix Home

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Dazed and confused.

[-] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

For ZSH, I have a script that automatically installs oh-my-zsh and a bunch of zsh plugins, and changes my default shell to ZSH.

For everything else, some files will just get copied over, others left behind. I only "manage" them when I need to view/edit them.

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