It's always cool to see what the real lived experience of using a totally different workflow is like. I don't have any dotfile management at all(Aside from my

It's always cool to see what the real lived experience of using a totally different workflow is like. I don't have any dotfile management at all(Aside from my regular incremental backups), and the only time I provision a new machines is if i get a new laptop or reinstall. I prefer to stay extremely hands off with VMs or servers. Ideally anything I do via SSH should be declarative and repeatable with Ansible. But recently there seems to be more and more important tools that can't be installed from a package manager and usually require manually editing PATH for some reason(I have no idea why they can't just use ~/.local/bin, or why there's no standard path management tool). It might be time to start putting things like that in a provisioning script. Or not, because they might not have a stable install process, and it's only a few minutes to do each one manually every few years.