dotbot VS dotfiles

Compare dotbot vs dotfiles and see what are their differences.

dotbot

A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚑️ (by anishathalye)

dotfiles

Settings for various tools I use. (by nickjj)
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dotbot dotfiles
31 13
6,735 922
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5.8 5.9
about 1 month ago 5 months ago
Python CSS
MIT License MIT License
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dotbot

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotbot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-21.

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 2024-01-22.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches

yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

nvim-notify - A fancy, configurable, notification manager for NeoVim

vim-python-ide - Python development config

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

ohmyzsh - πŸ™ƒ A delightful community-driven (with 2,200+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager

dotfiles

org-roam - Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

rcm - rc file (dotfile) management

vim-dirvish - Directory viewer for Vim :zap: