[dimator]

> I avoided superfluous dotfile managers and the limitations of the "version control $HOME" method by instead including first-line comments

ok...

> The files can be scanned and symlinks can be created with some awk magic:

wut.

this is just bespoke file management scheme. we've all been there, but there are better tools for this, as other comments have mentioned.

[flkiwi]

It's interesting and a fun hacking challenge for someone so inclined but it also seems slightly ... I don't know ... extraneous? But the community that needs dotfiles is diverse enough to support everything from Linux From Scratch devotees to chezmoi users, so that's cool.