dotfiles VS dotfile-starter

Compare dotfiles vs dotfile-starter and see what are their differences.

dotfiles

My dotfiles, managed with git and yrice (by LoricAndre)

dotfile-starter

🎓 A quick starter for creating your own dotfile home. (by jonleopard)
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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 2021-03-02.
  • How do you manage your dotfiles?
    20 projects | /r/neovim | 2 Mar 2021
    I'm using make to manage the symlinks and a few other things, with git ofc. (https://github.com/LoricAndre/dotfiles if you wanna check it out)
  • vimrc configuration
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 17 Jan 2021
    Be careful though, they include my config for around 20 plugins, shifting hjkl to jklm on azerty keyboard etc. : https://github.com/LoricAndre/dotfiles. The files you migt be interested in are mostly in nvim, nvim/lua and nvim/lua/plugins.
  • TUI for KeePass or a way to migrate from KeePass to some other CLI / TUI program?
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 7 Jan 2021
    I'm using bitwarden, and it has an official cli client that I've extended in my dotfiles to integrate fzf, you'll just need to adjust the commands for interacting with your clipboard : https://github.com/LoricAndre/dotfiles/blob/main/bin/fbw. Once you've installed the cli client, you need to login and then you can start the script, it will prompt you for an url match, then username if there are multiple accounts for that url, then put the username in the primary clipboard and the password in the system clipboard.
  • Global uniform style
    4 projects | /r/swaywm | 2 Jan 2021
    You can check out my dotfiles and adapt them : I'm using makefiles and perl to add colors to all my config files : https://github.com/LoricAndre/dotfiles
  • Fonts Recommendation that is not pain in the ass?
    1 project | /r/archlinux | 1 Jan 2021
    I've pretty much always used nerd fonts. For the config, as I don't care about anything other than monospace, it all fits in one file, ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/99-monospace.conf. the file

dotfile-starter

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfile-starter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-02.
  • How do you manage your dotfiles?
    20 projects | /r/neovim | 2 Mar 2021
    I wrote an article on this, and also a made a little starter repo that will help you get familiar with how stow works. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and dotfile-starter you can also consider the following projects:

Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

dotbare - Manage dotfiles and any git directories interactively with fzf

xsettingsd - Moved to codeberg.org/derat/xsettingsd

dotfiles - 🏠 dotfiles for my macOS environment

rcm - rc file (dotfile) management

yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

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

mystuff - configs and scripts for linux

keepmenu - Dmenu/Rofi frontend for Keepass databases

dotfiles

vcsh - config manager based on Git