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Ask HN: How do you share your personal setup over different computers?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you share your personal setup over different computers?

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Post by eatonphil »

I do all my development on a baremetal OVH machine. $80/mo. SSH+tmux from all my computers so I can keep going.

I tried keeping my configs in source control but it always went out of date over the years. Dev-ing on a dedicated server has been easiest.

Re: Ask HN: How do you share your personal setup over different computers?

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Post by textinterface »

softwarebeware wrote: post #5

Do you have a "dotfiles" repository? I know it doesn't cover everything but, as a developer, I can't believe how I ever went years without one.

I do have one, it helps a lot with config files. I also tried versioning some bash scripts there to install stuff, but the latter doesn't feel quite right.
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