dotfiles VS dot.me

Compare dotfiles vs dot.me and see what are their differences.

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dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-07.

dot.me

Posts with mentions or reviews of dot.me. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-24.
  • podiki's Emacs Config
    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 7 Aug 2023
  • Having trouble installing StumpWM
    1 project | /r/GUIX | 24 Oct 2022
    You can see https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/tree/master/x11 for more, but that is the important part.
  • This is how computing should feel
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Aug 2022
    In case it helps, you can see my configs for both in my dot files: https://github.com/podiki/dot.me I recently did a lot with my Stump config as I was energized by returning to it, doing things I didn't realize I could do before. It does need cleaning up now.
  • How To Version Control (Git) Dotfiles Tangled with Org
    2 projects | /r/orgmode | 20 Jun 2022
    I have a similar setup to what you are asking about, I think. I haven't migrated everything to org-mode, but many are. You can see my dotfiles here: https://github.com/podiki/dot.me
  • How(/where) do you load your icon and color themes?
    1 project | /r/GUIX | 25 Oct 2021
    So you should be able to have just about everything in user profiles/manifests and probably it is a search path here not being exported. If it is helpful, I have my config stuff here https://github.com/podiki/dot.me (see the guix and zsh directories specifically)
  • I Built My New Linux Gaming Desktop in 2021 with AMD (CPU+GPU) and GNU Guix
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2021
    I better get right on it! If you are curious, you can see my current Guix config here [0], though not very commented. But those files (combined with the rest of my dot files) would reproduce this system configuration.

    [0] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/tree/master/guix/.config

  • Just out of curiosity, how many bytes/kilobytes/megabytes does your dot file weight?
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 22 Sep 2021
    I use org-mode to generate my file (see https://github.com/podiki/dot.me for all of them), with the main emacs org file weighing in at 72K or 1,865 lines (woah, it got long). While my .emacs file that will load this file is just 5.8K or 106 lines. I've been using, and customizing, emacs for a while...
  • A Way to Manage Dotfiles
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 May 2021
    Personally, I use git [0] along with GNU stow [1], combined with making the files directly from a literate Readme.org (e.g. [2]). I sync this repository between machines to update files, and when I make changes in the org-mode Readme file it automatically generates the new file. There are ways to pull in changes made to that file directly, but haven't needed to do that. My repo doesn't have the full details, but if you want to see it in action along with a few links and pointers, do take a look at [0]. I really like having it all together in one place, and with org-mode everything is very (human) readable.

    [0] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me

    [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

    [2] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/blob/master/x11/README.org

  • Help regarding picom-jonaburg-git and XMonad WM on Arch
    1 project | /r/archlinux | 5 May 2021
    I have it running with a very similar setup (same picom fork, XMonad, nvidia, xinitrc), which you can see here, in case it helps: https://github.com/podiki/dot.me
  • Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2020
    STOW is great, it is simple and works well especially combined with git. That's what I do [0], and recently combined it with org-mode for literate programming, so each program has just a README.org that then generates all the files via org tangle [1] [2]. For example, here is my file that generates my Xorg configuration [3] over several files, nicely readable on GitHub, in Emacs, or just as plain text.

    [0] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/

    [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190924102437/https://expoundit...

    [2] https://orgmode.org/manual/Working-with-Source-Code.html

    [3] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/tree/master/x11

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and dot.me you can also consider the following projects:

chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

Le Wagon's Setup - Setup instructions for Le Wagon's students on their first day of Web Development Bootcamp

the-glorious-dotfiles - A glorified personal dot files

nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that

themix-gui - Graphical application for generating different color variations of Oomox (Numix-based) and Materia (ex-Flat-Plat) themes (GTK2, GTK3, Cinnamon, GNOME, Openbox, Xfwm), Archdroid, Gnome-Color, Numix, Papirus and Suru++ icon themes. Have a hack for HiDPI in gtk2. Its Base16 plugin also allowing a lot of app themes support like Alacritty, Emacs, GTK4, KDE, VIM and many more.

vcsh - config manager based on Git

startpage - tree inspired startpage!

stumpwm - The Stump Window Manager

i3 - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3.

GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches

dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️

dotfiles - zsh, git, vscode, ipython