Agreed. I had a workmate who stored all his dotfiles in git and checked them out on new computers. With very few exceptions I just stick with the defaults and

Agreed. I had a workmate who stored all his dotfiles in git and checked them out on new computers. With very few exceptions I just stick with the defaults and it works for me. I also had other workmates who did everything in some exotic shell, so of course none of their one-liners worked in bash.