I used to do this for macOS and Linux but it was a fragile approach, since using Nix and NixOS I've had great success using home-manager[0] which takes care of

I used to do this for macOS and Linux but it was a fragile approach, since using Nix and NixOS I've had great success using home-manager[0] which takes care of what software is installed and any overrides or patches I desire. I also use GNU stow in my dotfiles[1] especially so that my setup still works on systems without Nix installed. [0] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager [1] https://github.com/siraben/dotfiles https://github.com/siraben/dotfiles