Managing your Dotfiles with Dotter (Tutorial)

• Rhai

  27 3,460 9.6 Rust

  Rhai - An embedded scripting language for Rust.

  

Markdown support Markdown as a templating language is supported, and you can use global and local configs. Also, there are several built-in helpers, and you can make your own, in the language rhai

• dotbot

  31 6,784 5.8 Python

  A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️

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.

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• dotfiles

  3 14 7.3 Shell

  My dracula themed dotfiles (hyprland, kitty, neovim, eww, zsh, neofetch, ...) (by SIMULATAN)

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.

• yadm

  81 4,761 2.4 Python

  Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

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.

• dotter

  8 756 6.9 Rust

  A dotfile manager and templater written in rust 🦀

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.

• DotterTemplate

  1 2 0.0 Shell

  🚀 a template repository that helps you bootstrap your dotfiles repository with dotter

I really hope you learned something new in this tutorial! Thanks a lot for reading through, and please, share feedback in the comments. This is my very first time writing a blog post, and I'd really appreciate some constructive criticism. If you need any help, you can either message me on discord (_SIM_#6866), send me an email ([email protected]), add a comment to the gist, or open an issue on the template repository (if related to the template)

• rhaiscript

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• chezmoi

  59 11,639 9.7 Go

  Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

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.

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