dotfiles VS Secrets

Compare dotfiles vs Secrets and see what are their differences.

dotfiles

:wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS (by mathiasbynens)

Secrets

Preference pane to access hidden user defaults (by ecnepsnai)
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dotfiles Secrets
28 2
29,793 29
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2.7 0.0
4 days ago about 8 years ago
Shell Objective-C
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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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 2023-08-22.

Secrets

Posts with mentions or reviews of Secrets. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-19.
  • Sensible macOS Defaults
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2021
    This is nice, but for the MacOS users who have a hard time dealing with the terminal, I've lived by the Secrets prefpane for some years and find it most handy:

    https://github.com/ecnepsnai/Secrets

What are some alternatives?

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

titus-awesome - Custom AwesomeWM Theme

Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.

qtile-polybar

macOS-Defaults - A centralized place for the awesome work started by @mathiasbynens on .macos

NvChad - Blazing fast Neovim config providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.

dotfiles - My dotfiles for macOS and Linux

gitmux - :computer: Git in your tmux status bar

awesome-wm-widgets - Widgets for Awesome Window Manager

telescope-media-files.nvim - Telescope extension to preview media files using Ueberzug.

neoterm - Wrapper of some vim/neovim's :terminal functions.

NixOS-WSL - NixOS on WSL(2) [maintainer=@nzbr]

dockerfiles - Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.