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! 🐧💻
Dotfile installation 🤣 right up there with advanced USB plugging techniques 🤣
https://github.com/maximbaz/dotfiles
Comes with a custom install script too. If you plan on using the scripts, then I’d highly recommend forking the repo and customizing the scripts for your own needs, and when there’s a change uostread you could just merge the new changes.
I recommend against setup scripts for window managers, because it makes it difficult to change components without understanding the consequences. In my opinion it’s better to copy each config file manually, which makes it easier to later suit it to your needs.
It’s more work to get a good starting configuration, but it pays off over the years of using it. Nothing prevents you from copy parts of someone elses config to quickly get started.
Edit: LARBS been around for a many years so it’s a good choice, since it’s likely to be maintained for years to come.
Hyprdots is great if you are into Tiling WMs, I loved it but ultimately realised that tiling WM is not for me.
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.
