configs VS dotfiles

Compare configs vs dotfiles and see what are their differences.

configs

Dot-files among other configs (by TheKnarf)
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configs

Posts with mentions or reviews of configs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.
  • Dotfiles Management
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2023
    I found that most tooling was overkill and now just use a single <100 Bash script [0].

    [0] https://github.com/TheKnarf/configs/blob/master/setup

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 2023-01-08.
  • Dotfiles Management
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2023
    You can use chezmoi to manage files outside your home directory if you really want to.

    For an example, see https://github.com/felipecrs/dotfiles:

    The `home` directory contains home directory files.

    The `root` directory contains root directory files (e.g `/etc`).

  • Running Docker on WSL2 the right way
    5 projects | dev.to | 15 Oct 2021
    For example, in my dotfiles, every single of these steps are automated, including configuring /etc/docker/daemon.json, changing ~/.profile, and even providing a way to automatically update your extra binaries (docker-compose, or the wincred.exe) every time you update your dotfiles (by using a feature of chezmoi - a dotfiles manager which I totally recommend).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing configs and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:

homies - My configuration files (.screenrc, .vimrc, .weechat, .bashrc, .gitconfig, etc)

wsl-open - Open files with xdg-open on Bash for Windows in Windows applications. Read only mirror from GitLab, see link :point_right:

dot-git - Managing your dotfiles the Git Way™

homer - The home directory management tool.

npt - Nix Package Tool. A (humble) successor to linux's apt, which makes life easier when using nix as a package manager.

dotfiles - dotfiles + debian setup

Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

tilde

dotfiles - My dotfiles, managed with https://chezmoi.io.

dotfiles - My dotfiles managed with chezmoi