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I must've tried to set up stow five or six times over the years, in between various hand rolled custom setups. I can't put my finger on why but I set up chez mo
by lucideer 4mo ago
I must've tried to set up stow five or six times over the years, in between various hand rolled custom setups. I can't put my finger on why but I set up chez moi & it's been my setup since, much longer than any previous solution.
Chez moi is definitely not without its rough edges but it seems to have gotten the subtle essentials right enough for adhd me to not have abandoned it yet.
- guhcampos 4mo agoI used stow for a long time, then tried Ansible, but eventually settled into good old Make. `make dotfiles` just creates a bunch of symlinks, takes 5 minutes, all good and happy. Everything is modular, declarative, simple. Never looked back.
- lucideer 4mo agoI think this is likely a part of the friction for a lot of people - symlinks. There's roughly two main ways to manage dotfiles: - symlink - copy & sync The 2nd (what chez moi does) is pretty hard to get right from a UX perspective.
- sureglymop 4mo agoSame here. I would say chezmoi has almost a bit too many features. If one is into yak shaving there is a lot to explore. It's only a negative for me because I forget half of them everytime I read the docs. But I can hardly blame it for that, it's great!
- linhns 4mo agoI nearly jumped from GNU Stow, but settled when I find the —-no-folding flag