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I truly appreciate people sharing their dotfiles, I learned so much about vim and zsh just by reading other people's configuration alone (and the occasional comments there). Also, the quality of life improvements like `alias ..='cd ..'`, or mapping `l` such that it either opens a pager or lists a dir, depending on the argument. I'd never come up with those, and they're beyond useful.
I could MAYBE see it if you were sharing your things on your personal blog -- but "github dotfile repos" feels wildly icky to me.
The usual answer is that I was not and we should change it.
I would also have to distribute a couple of novel go programs that I am not proud of if I was sharing it publicly.
RIGHT? I could MAYBE see it if you were sharing your things on your personal blog -- but "github dotfile repos" feels wildly icky to me.
Then I realized that some of those config files reflected a lot about my systems and personal preferences... and it was only going to be ever more detailed, so I said NOPE making separate repos for my nvim config maybe and that will be it!
sorry.
When it comes to consuming the dots of others, I just switched to AxOS for Linux... and am auditioning Celestia (https://github.com/caelestia-dots/shell). This means that in 3 months, my desktop will likely look like everyone else's. I probably won't even commit any of this as it's not really my stuff.
I feel the same about my NixOS config despite the "open repo" model kind of being a default in that ecosystem
I simultaneously don’t want anyone to see mine while desperately seeking affirmation that mine is not weird ^_^
Happy to hear I’m not alone!
I used to use chezmoi and had a great experience with it .It made it easy to choose exactly what I wanted to share. These days, I don’t have many devices, so I stopped using it. Still, it feels great when someone asks, “How did you set that up?” and I can instantly share my entire configuration through a GitHub repo.
I’d often change a file, forget that it was backed by the chezmoi store, later find myself trying to reconcile the differences, just so I could commit and share w/ another computer. nix + home-manager and snowfall lib, once over the multi month ramp up, have been such a breath of fresh air in multi system management