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I’ve always managed this problem in a different way. I don’t know if my way is better, but it works really well for me. I treat my powerful desktop computer as my main machine. Then I have a bunch of laptops. Then I just rsync my entire home directory out to all the laptops. From there. The rule is quite simple. Any file created on a laptop are considered ephemeral. If I create data that I have to keep. It gets rsync…
It’s quite new but I’ve been cooking up some new bootstrapping features with mise which people may find relevant here: https://mise.jdx.dev/bootstrap.html It’s for things like dotfiles, apt/brew packages, and LaunchAgents/systemd. EDIT: I feel a little bad having hijacked this, as someone that hears a lot of opinions about devtools I can definitely say chezmoi is a darling of the community and I highly recommend chec…
Ha, I came here to share this! :) Thanks so much for your work on mise! I used to be a heavy asdf user but nowadays I'm an even heavier mise user! Random question while you're here: mise is undergoing pretty heavy development these days and I recently noticed that 1) my coworkers and I are not always on the same version, so some features/bug fixes are not available to everyone, and 2) package registries often don't h…
I would make use of min_version. It's not perfect, but will at least help bring laggards along.
It’s quite new but I’ve been cooking up some new bootstrapping features with mise which people may find relevant here: https://mise.jdx.dev/bootstrap.html It’s for things like dotfiles, apt/brew packages, and LaunchAgents/systemd. EDIT: I feel a little bad having hijacked this, as someone that hears a lot of opinions about devtools I can definitely say chezmoi is a darling of the community and I highly recommend chec…
Hopefully can use this alone instead of needing to combine w/ chezmoi / nix to get everything shell and pkg manager agnostic, consistent, and DRY (bash/zsh/fish + macports/pkgsrc/brew).
It’s quite new but I’ve been cooking up some new bootstrapping features with mise which people may find relevant here: https://mise.jdx.dev/bootstrap.html It’s for things like dotfiles, apt/brew packages, and LaunchAgents/systemd. EDIT: I feel a little bad having hijacked this, as someone that hears a lot of opinions about devtools I can definitely say chezmoi is a darling of the community and I highly recommend chec…
I am quite intrigued. With the sorry state of security, I am doing everything in VMs and have been trying to settle on the best way to setup a new machine. The process is so clunky that I end up defaulting to bigger instances than I should (more pets than cattle). Being able to centralize this config is far more attractive than having a separate Ansible or pyinfra process. Edit: The docs on this are very encouraging!…
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People shy from Nix because of supposed complexity but it really is the only real solution to this sort of problem. It's not really that much more difficult to learn, and in fact if you are willing, AI works really well generating nix config.
how nix-pilled do you have to be to think that nix is the "only real solution" to dotfile managers?
I like mise, but at the end of the day some programs are more complex than just pulling a precompiled, dynamically linked binary and hoping it works.
It’s quite new but I’ve been cooking up some new bootstrapping features with mise which people may find relevant here: https://mise.jdx.dev/bootstrap.html It’s for things like dotfiles, apt/brew packages, and LaunchAgents/systemd. EDIT: I feel a little bad having hijacked this, as someone that hears a lot of opinions about devtools I can definitely say chezmoi is a darling of the community and I highly recommend chec…
Just started moving things to mise and didn’t see this before, thanks. Hopefully can use this alone instead of needing to combine w/ chezmoi / nix to get everything shell and pkg manager agnostic, consistent, and DRY (bash/zsh/fish + macports/pkgsrc/brew).
The "exception" to that are linux package managers like apt-get and dnf which it calls under the hood. I think can't be an actual issue since it's not like you would ever use ubuntu/redhat without their system package manager installed.
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how nix-pilled do you have to be to think that nix is the "only real solution" to dotfile managers?
Its the only complete, reproducible, and portable solution, in my opinion. I like mise, but at the end of the day some programs are more complex than just pulling a precompiled, dynamically linked binary and hoping it works.
I thought it was the former but "just pulling a precompiled, dynamically linked binary and hoping it works" makes me think we're not on the same page since to me that has nothing to do with dotfiles.
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Its the only complete, reproducible, and portable solution, in my opinion. I like mise, but at the end of the day some programs are more complex than just pulling a precompiled, dynamically linked binary and hoping it works.
I am genuinely confused. Are you saying dotfile managers need to be more complex? Or that nix's problem space is the only solution for the things in nix's domain? (of which dotfiles are just one—via home manager) I thought it was the former but "just pulling a precompiled, dynamically linked binary and hoping it works" makes me think we're not on the same page since to me that has nothing to do with dotfiles.
Also noting that I don't see the problem as "dotfile management" but as "system AND user configuration management" which extends beyond some plain text files in $HOME.
ed.: and home manager is just one tool which provides not only dotfile management, but drvs for installing particular programs and configuring then in highly opinionated ways -- I do not use it
Switched to Chezmoi from random assortment of manually authored scripts. The workflow takes some getting used to, because I constantly edit the actual files without calling `chezmoi edit` first, and have to merge. I like that when combined with `mise` ( https://mise.jdx.dev ) I can roll out a new computer in 2-3 commands and have my entire environment configured the way I like, with neovim and all the plugins and lan…