awesome-dotfiles VS tealdeer

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.

If you dont like how stow organizes your files, you could try a different dot file manager. There are plenty to chose from

Create a dotfiles project on github to maintain your files.

Set up a dotfiles project and check it out in the VM.

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.

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.

Not really. 😉

There's also a cli program called tealdeer that does this kind of thing and uses a local cache. And there's a fuzzy search interactive cli cheatsheet program called navi that's also pretty cool (and you can write your own cheatsheets).

man command & -h/--help flags & tealdear

My new found love is tealdeer + fzf and this alias:

This is a nice tool for shortened man pages.

I use the rust implementation since I have cargo installed anyway. https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer

TeelDeer Github & Docs

tealdeer (loosely pronounced TLDR) provides example-based and community-driven man pages https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer

tealdeer for commandline cheatsheets