dotfiles VS aconfmgr

Nice! I'll definitely be taking a look at the rest of your dotfiles.

profile? why? It is a part of .xinitrc. My settings is following https://github.com/raven2cz/dotfiles/blob/main/.xinitrc Install package xorg-xinit and read about xinit processes. And xinit-xsession...

I updated package lists from this station. The lists are here: https://github.com/raven2cz/dotfiles/tree/main/.root/packages

https://github.com/raven2cz/dotfiles - in /bin folder pull and init subtrees, similar for awesome project.

Establishing a backup strategy. I'm using BTRFS with snapper and a pacman hook that creates a new snapshot before each upgrade. With ext4 I used timeshift. Besides that, I save my arch configuration with aconfmgr and my files with borg

try this https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr

For my backup I keep files in my home directory synced with my NAS via syncthing. For my system backup I don't actually backup up my system, I configure my system via aconfmgr and that config is stored in my home directory and synced to my NAS. Using aconfmgr to "backup" my system is extremely space effecient, my aconfmgr config is only 1.7 MB.

To get something closer to nix on arch I like to use aconfmgr.

For those who are not familiar with Arch's aconfmgr, well I have not used it before but just saw it in a post. But it seems to be a configuration manager for Arch. It tracks, manages, and restores your Arch Linux OS configuration.

What's the difference between this and https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr ?

> First, you won't use arch on production servers.

I don’t know, for a pet server this might not be as dumb an idea as it sounds (though without automatic updates, obviously). Perhaps with aconfmgr[1]?

I haven’t done it in anger, but over seven years of running a personal server I’ve had a total of three instances of breakage: upstream strongSwan systemd integration change[2] (in legacy config handling), upstream nftables parsing bug[3] (but I knew in advance that nftables is for adventurous people), and an upstream Kea config change[4] (and, well, Kea really bloody sucks—suggestions for anything else that can do DHCPv6 PD welcome). My (Arch) GNOME desktop broke much more frequently during that time.

[1] https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr

[2] https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Changel..., first item

[3] https://git.netfilter.org/nftables/commit/?id=638af0ceb2b223...

[4] https://kb.isc.org/docs/en/upgrading-to-kea-16

Ahhhh... these are interesting (I use fish rather than zsh myself), but like where you were going with this as this was more the bootstrappy - install and go things I was thinking like... though I have to admit the package https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr/ pointed at above looks quite interesting as well (at least for Arch)

I'm headed this direction as well. Another tool to look at is https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr/ that is for arch. Another thing to consider is using nix (the package manager) on arch.