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What was your latest improvement to your Linux setup? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cleaning up the junk.

I went through a lot, and put my dotfiles in my dotfiles repo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you using stow for that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Uhm I just symlink the files hahaha

Is there a better way? There are quite some issues where I need to copy instead of linking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps take a look at yadm which can adapt dotfiles (via symlinks or esh-based templates) based on system attributes such as os or hostname

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh, this looks nice. I like the bit about maintaining different versions, which is something kind of annoying about maintaining different setups for my laptop and desktop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I just learned about stow, which as far as I understand, is a package that kinda manages the whole symlinking bit for you plus a few things? Honestly, I am not sure how it would differ exactly from what you're doing, but you should check out a short video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6XCebnB9gs&t=3