dotfiles VS arkade

I'm in the middle of switching now, from Silverblue. It's a lot of fun. The Arch wiki to do something will have you changing three files and restarting 2 services, while with NixOS you add a line to your config and you're done. And when something doesn't exist as a Nix package/config, it seems somewhat easy to build your self (compared to other package managers, at least). I realized there's no "game-devices" package last night, for example, but I was able to get this working in about an hour of Googling:

https://github.com/pkulak/dotfiles/blob/nix/nix/gamedevices....

Still not all the way in. Like, I'm still going to use Chezmoi for my home directory because I don't quite see the value-add of Home Manager, but who knows; maybe I'll be a super fan next year and move everything over.

Fonts were always a PITA for me too, until I realized you can just drop whatever you want in ~.local/share/fonts. Then you can even track them with whatever dotfile manager you use and always have them available on every machine you use, immutable or not. There's zero need to involve a package manager.

I just have a wrapper script that I run instead of sway itself.

That doesn't fly with me. I just use Alacritty and re-bind the keys so I can still use ctrl-c and v:

https://github.com/pkulak/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/alacr...

If you omit sudo, then you can move the binary yourself.

And of course, there's nothing stopping you visiting the releases page - or installing my tap and getting it from Brew!

https://github.com/alexellis/arkade/releases

I strongly discourage actually using such a tool in a professional setting for a host of reasons but that is exactly what https://github.com/alexellis/arkade appears to be going for.

https://docs.oracle.com/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/ https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/ https://github.com/alexellis/arkade https://cert-manager.io/docs/tutorials/acme/nginx-ingress/ https://docs.openfaas.com/deployment/kubernetes/ https://docs.openfaas.com/cli/install/

If you've not yet heard of or used arkade - check it out on GitHub https://github.com/alexellis/arkade/

For the CNCF landscape of tooling there's Arkade, which would at least cover you on the k9s front. [1]

[1] https://github.com/alexellis/arkade

I built a feature in arkade [1] to pull in binaries for CLIs for infrastructure and developer tooling that I wanted to use - it now has 72 CLIs that you can pull down with a single command and most importantly, as near to instantly as you're going to get.

For instance: arkade get [email protected] yq helm faas-cli

It's not got anywhere near the catalog of brew, and doesn't compile software, or help you find lib-xyz for your Yubikey, but it is really fast and has a growing community behind it.

It works on MacOS, Linux, Windows and arm hosts to determine the correct download URL and pull in a binary.

[1] https://github.com/alexellis/arkade

Contributions are welcome.