dotfiles VS spacemacs

Compare dotfiles vs spacemacs and see what are their differences.

dotfiles

A collection of my dotfiles (by siraben)
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spacemacs

A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim! (by syl20bnr)
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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 2023-06-20.
  • Installing Python/PIP tools with home-manager
    3 projects | /r/Nix | 20 Jun 2023
    (taken from https://github.com/siraben/dotfiles/blob/master/home-manager/.config/nixpkgs/python-packages.nix) but that did not even download the packages in question.
  • Make Linux Fast Again
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jun 2022
    I had the exact same kernel parameters in my NixOS configuration[0] and after some benchmarks (mostly Emacs-related) I observed a 10-15% speedup, pretty neat.

    [0] https://github.com/siraben/dotfiles/commit/c0eb0b43083738cab...

  • Using LSP in Emacs and Debian
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2022
    Note that when you use LSP with Emacs, installing language servers can quickly lead to dependency hell. I use home-manager[0] to specify which language servers I want installed[1] (among other things such as compilers for different languages) so integration with Emacs is reproducible.

    [0] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

    [1] https://github.com/siraben/dotfiles/blob/bad2e8a29b6622e10bc...

  • How to write a linter using tree-sitter in an hour
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Mar 2022
    Using Nix and home-manager I'm able to have this setup with Emacs work across Linux and macOS (x86 and arm64) because it compiles the grammars from Nixpkgs itself (the grammar list can also be augmented declaratively with other grammars).

    [0] https://github.com/siraben/dotfiles/blob/a0f49781ecb05693908...

  • How to Learn Nix
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2021
    I recently got into running my own NixOS server—setting up Nextcloud[0], a website[1], DNS server and most recently a mail server[2] were all incredibly easy, in fact, setting up DNS records is more involved than configuring a mail server on NixOS! This was all done on a server with less than 10 GB of disk space as well.

    With additional software such as NixOps, personal servers can also be easily spun up and provisioned.

    While inevitably there are rough edges if you look deeply enough, I think the default OOTB experience has been incredible for use on a server and as a day-to-day distro. Highly predictable and declarative configurations is the way to go.

    [0] https://github.com/siraben/dotfiles/blob/ffaaacf8888a5c4167b...

    [1] https://siraben.dev

    [2] https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver

  • Using libgccjit to make Emacs 2.3x to 42x faster [pdf]
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 May 2021

spacemacs

Posts with mentions or reviews of spacemacs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-30.

What are some alternatives?

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

dhall - Maintainable configuration files

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

doom - Doom Emacs config

agenix.el - Transparent editing for agenix secrets inside Emacs

homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager

dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files

GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs

lorri - Your project’s nix-env [maintainer=@Profpatsch,@nyarly]

prelude - Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 25.1+ distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.

nixos-mailserver - A complete and Simple Nixos Mailserver

xah-fly-keys - the most efficient keybinding for emacs

dotfiles vs dhall spacemacs vs doom-emacs dotfiles vs doom-emacs spacemacs vs doom dotfiles vs agenix.el spacemacs vs homebrew-emacs-plus dotfiles vs dhall-lang spacemacs vs GNU Emacs dotfiles vs lorri spacemacs vs prelude dotfiles vs nixos-mailserver spacemacs vs xah-fly-keys