[herewulf]

That sounds great! It actually only dawned on me that I could have a setup like you describe as I was writing my comment above. Thanks for sharing your details!

The only downside for me, and I've been reluctant about this for years, is I ssh into a lot of Linux machines that usually just have the standard stuff and default configs. This has kept me from experimenting with a lot things so as to keep my muscle memory also standard (thus avoiding i.e.: zsh, extensive .vimrc with plugins, etc).