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Stupid argument. With this logic, nothing new is ever explored, nothing is learned, no insights gained, or shared. This logic even questions the need for chezmoi - stow existed for decades before chezmoi. You think chezmoi sprang into existence with all its features? High chance it was someone's toy project because they didn't want to use stow.

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stow's approach of using symlinks is extremely limiting. For example, it means you can't have templates (for small machine-to-machine differences and secrets) or encrypted files. chezmoi does have a symlink mode, like stow, but using symlinks has multiple downsides: https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/frequently-asked-questions...

chezmoi was actually inspired by Puppet, not stow.

Source: me, I'm the author of chezmoi.