After recently installing a new system, I had a rude awakening when I realized I’d been tinkering with broken dotfiles for over a year. It’s time to simplify things. I’m considering adopting popular dotfiles with established installation processes and leaving my existing setup behind, transferring essential configurations initially and addressing the rest over time. What I’m looking for, above all, is a dependable installation process that not only configures the dotfiles but also handles the program installations required for them to function seamlessly. Your suggestions and insights are much appreciated. Thanks! 🐧💻

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    11 months ago

    You may be interested in nix’s home manager. It allows you to manage all of your home directory configs (dotfiles), as nix code. It has built in rollbacks, and can be git tracked.

    You can then find other people’s home manager configs on github.