dotfiles
Dotfiles for configuring my terminal environment (by ViBiOh)
awesome-dotfiles
A curated list of dotfiles resources. (by webpro)
| dotfiles | awesome-dotfiles | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | |
| 17 | 8,708 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.6 | 5.1 | |
| 7 days ago | 13 days ago | |
| Shell | ||
| MIT License | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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 2021-04-27.
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~/.dotfiles
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awesome-dotfiles
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-dotfiles.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-30.
- bashrc inspiration - your favorit trick
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How do you configure your mac?
There are lots of good resources out there on the topic, such as GitHub's collection of tutorials and inspiration and the awesome-dotfiles repo with lots of resources.
- Editing Files through BASH Scripts
- Noob pre-install questions: Partition plan, swap space location, sizes, maximize ease of restoring
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is there a better way to symlink with stow?
If you dont like how stow organizes your files, you could try a different dot file manager. There are plenty to chose from
- I use git and rcm to save my dotfiles
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Using .bashrc / .profile that points to a gist
Create a dotfiles project on github to maintain your files.
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What's the best way to migrate from one DE to another?
Set up a dotfiles project and check it out in the VM.
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~/.dotfiles
You can find many tools on GitHub (or elsewhere) to bootstrap your Dotfiles. Some people choose to rely on Ansible, others on some tools you have to install. But how to install a tool that install the tools? Manual installation is not an option. It's like a chicken-egg problem.
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New Mac Coding/Dev Setup
You might want check out some of the more popular mac-specific dotfiles like those from mathiasbynens. Here is a good list of good repos. I must must admit that I have not yet gone this route (been meaning to), but one potential advantage is that you have multiple people working on / debugging a reproducible configuration.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dotfiles and awesome-dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
xxh - 🚀 Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh. Xonsh shell, fish, zsh, osquery and so on.