This repository serves as a laboratory. It is meant for experimentation and should be considered unstable, biased and sometimes even untested.
Nevertheless feel free to take a look and learn from it, experimenting and sharing is encouraged.
The journey begins around 2019-ish, back when I was a complete novice in the
*nix world. The way I used to manage my configurations originally was by
emulating the ~/ directory structure in the git repository; plain cp.
Luke Smith was the individual who introduced me the *nix world via his
humurous,
sarcastic yet
informational videos hosted on
his YouTube channel,
also hosted at any libre-whatever platform. More on this on the
Acknoledgments section.
The following .files have accompanied me since 2019-ish and have been under vc since 2020.
NOTE: Consider reading the Disclaimer section.
After some time using a traditional approach to manage my configurations I went on and tried GNU Stow, which is a symlink farm manager. It was nice being able to edit the managed configuration files the normal way to also affecting the source files.
Stow did not last long before I tried chezmoi for even less time. It offered me everything Stow did but with the added benefit of being able to use placeholders and templates, among other few things.
I settled using Ansible for a while, which is a configuration management tool developed by RedHat. This convinced me to believe this project was more solid than the previously mentioned ones, because of RedHat being a big company. And in fact, it is true, until this day I still recommend using Ansible even though I do not use it anymore.
I transformed my whole configuration into Ansible playbooks, which gave a lot of flexibility and the ability to not only manage my configurations, but also to install some programs. This ended up reducing a lot manual intervention I had to deal with previously. To accomplish this, I followed LearnLinuxTV's excellent playlist on the matter.
Around mid-late 2022 I entered the world of NixOS, ( ... ) [TO BE CONTINUED]
I encourage the reader to browse through this repository's commit history to see how the structured of it has evolved over time.
- Luke Smith
- Derek Taylor (DistroTube)
- Protesilaos Stavrou
- David Wilson (SystemCrafters)
- Brodie Robertson
- Jake Hamilton
- Suraj Kushwah (bugswriter)
- Gavin Freeborn
- gotbletu
xero's dotfiles- Luke Smith's dotfiles
- Derek Taylor's dotfiles
- David Wilson's dotfiles
- Henrik Lissner's dotfiles
- Jake Hamilton's dotfiles
mic92's dotfiles- Austin Horstman's dotfiles
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Unless otherwise noted, all code herein is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3 or later.