I've been using Stow for about two years now to manage my dotfiles. In order to improve the UX I've wrapped it within a small utility which allows me to define

I've been using Stow for about two years now to manage my dotfiles. In order to improve the UX I've wrapped it within a small utility which allows me to define packages (directories of dotfiles that should be managed) such as zsh (containing .zshrc, .zshenv, .zlogin, etc) and their respective locations [1]. There's a few other niceties such as modular Zsh file sourcing, allowing encapsulation by OS, automatic git-crypt support, and dependency resolution across mac and debian. I've been tempted to try NixOS due to its emphasis on config-as-code, but this isn't something I can feasibly do as this would fragment my dotfiles across different ways of thinking, which conflicts with my desire to have one repo for every device. Which I've achieved pretty successfully as these dotfiles exist on my personal/work macs, WSL, work/personal linux workstations and a few colleagues devices. All of which works out of the box with a single $ git clone and invocation of a bootstrap.zsh file which installs and sources everything you'd need. The real magic behind all of this is Stow, so I'll always be eternally grateful to its maintainers. If I wasn't a complete stranger to the GNU ecosystem, I'd step up and offer my help. For anyone who's curious here's my dotfiles: https://github.com/o-y/dotfiles https://github.com/o-y/dotfiles 1: https://github.com/o-y/dotfiles/blob/main/bootstrap.zsh#L38-L59 https://github.com/o-y/dotfiles/blob/main/bootstrap.zsh#L38-...