dotfiles VS dotter

You can use chezmoi to manage files outside your home directory if you really want to.

For an example, see https://github.com/felipecrs/dotfiles:

The `home` directory contains home directory files.

The `root` directory contains root directory files (e.g `/etc`).

For example, in my dotfiles, every single of these steps are automated, including configuring /etc/docker/daemon.json, changing ~/.profile, and even providing a way to automatically update your extra binaries (docker-compose, or the wincred.exe) every time you update your dotfiles (by using a feature of chezmoi - a dotfiles manager which I totally recommend).

dotter-rs -- config manager with templates

I was unhappy with existing solutions, especially I wanted the ability to handle differences between machines. So I built my own! You're welcome to see if you like it :)

https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter

I'm glad you asked! There are plenty of dotfiles managers out there, like chezmoi, Dotbot, or yadm (you can see a list here and a comparison table (from chezmoi, thus biased) here. But for this tutorial (and my dotfiles), I chose dotter.

Or you could use the greatest bestest dotfile manager ever invented by yours truly - Dotter! It is designed to allow for per-machine configuration exactly like this :)

Shameless plug time! Check out my project Dotter :D

Apparently I get that a lot :P