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awesome-dotfiles
- 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.
mackup
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Best way to transfer apps to new Mac using external drive
Also checkout Mackup.
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Allow all applications to access Dropbox or Google Drive files
I am using mackup to sync application preferences between devices over Dropbox. Now if any application with synced preferences is started I will get a question if given application is allowed to access Dropbox files (because it tries to access its preferences). Examples below.
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Clone user settings/preferences for Personal and Work accounts on same mac
Hello there! I use https://github.com/lra/mackup Not sure if its the BEST but it works well for me. * What does it do - Back ups your application settings in a safe directory (e.g. Dropbox) - Syncs your application settings among all your workstations - Restores your configuration on any fresh install in one command line
- Backup Solutions for MacOS
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The best Mac Apps to unlock your max potential (recommended by users of r/MacOs )
Yeah, I went through a similar process when I finally upgraded my MBP after 8 years on a 2013 MBP. In light of the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon, I decided to do some spring cleaning with a fresh install. I ended up curating my own setup/bootstrap scripts as well as using mackup to backup and sync my dotfiles and app configs.
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Sync settings
I use Mackup which syncs a many app settings including Raycast to your choice of location.
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Dotfiles Management
I moved away from using a dotfiles repo a few years ago because I kept forgetting to add/commit files as I changed them.
Instead I use mackup[0] which automatically manages symlinks to your Dropbox/Drive/Share and has support for a huge amount of software by default. You can also manually add “extra” files you wish to track if you like.
[0] https://github.com/lra/mackup
- Configuration files sync between multiple macs
- A configuration management system for pets, not cattle
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Trying to learn Homebrew-macOS /usr/local layout --for purpose of--> migrating /usr/local from one Macbook to another
Brew bundle will install fresh copies of your package list. If you have any configuration files that you want to reuse, you’d have to transfer those separately. This might help https://github.com/lra/mackup
What are some alternatives?
xxh - 🚀 Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh. Xonsh shell, fish, zsh, osquery and so on.
chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
homesick - Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.
macprefs - Backup and Restore your Mac System and App Preferences (e.g. defaults write)
ios-starter - Small template for iOS Xcode projects
desktop - Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.
git - A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches.
yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
dotfiles - Dotfiles for configuring my terminal environment
kde-plasma-backup - Script for backup and restore KDE Plasma environment configuration.
rbenv - Manage your app's Ruby environment
konsave - A command line program written in Python to let you backup your dotfiles and switch to other ones in an instant. Works out-of-the box on KDE Plasma!