[lucideer]

I must've tried to set up stow five or six times over the years, in between various hand rolled custom setups. I can't put my finger on why but I set up chez moi & it's been my setup since, much longer than any previous solution.

Chez moi is definitely not without its rough edges but it seems to have gotten the subtle essentials right enough for adhd me to not have abandoned it yet.

[guhcampos]

I used stow for a long time, then tried Ansible, but eventually settled into good old Make.

`make dotfiles` just creates a bunch of symlinks, takes 5 minutes, all good and happy. Everything is modular, declarative, simple. Never looked back.

[lucideer]

I think this is likely a part of the friction for a lot of people - symlinks.

There's roughly two main ways to manage dotfiles:

- symlink

- copy & sync

The 2nd (what chez moi does) is pretty hard to get right from a UX perspective.

[sureglymop]

Same here. I would say chezmoi has almost a bit too many features. If one is into yak shaving there is a lot to explore. It's only a negative for me because I forget half of them everytime I read the docs. But I can hardly blame it for that, it's great!

[linhns]

I nearly jumped from GNU Stow, but settled when I find the —-no-folding flag