dotfiles VS nix

Compare dotfiles vs nix and see what are their differences.

dotfiles

My dotfiles and a shell script to manage them (by kevin-hanselman)
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my nix modules, overlays, host configurations, and more! (by jpetrucciani)
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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 2020-12-26.
  • Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2020
    I really like this method as opposed to using a bare Git repository. For one, it's conceptually simpler in my mind; you don't have to understand Git internals to get this working. Secondly, this lets you pick and choose which config files you want to "install" on a machine.

    I feel obligated to share my Bash script, dotfiles.sh[1], that accomplishes what Stow does, but with a few tweaks that I found particularly useful:

    dotfiles.sh targets the user's home directory by default (i.e. stow -t $HOME).

    dotfiles.sh never symlinks directories, only files (i.e. stow --no-folding). (This was the straw that broke the camel's back and made me roll my own script in the first place.)

    dotfiles.sh makes backups of local config files and can restore them if you remove your symlinked version.

    My script is quite old now, and I use it so seldomly I'm not convinced there aren't bugs. YMMV.

    [1]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dotfiles

nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-26.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

zinit - Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages.

bashdot - Minimalist dotfile management framework.

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

vcsh - config manager based on Git

dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️

dotfiles - .files

dot.me - me dot files

dotfiles vs GNU Stow nix vs GNU Stow dotfiles vs zinit nix vs bashdot dotfiles vs Home Manager using Nix nix vs vcsh dotfiles vs dotbot nix vs dotfiles dotfiles vs dot.me nix vs dot.me dotfiles vs vcsh nix vs zinit