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by QwenGlazer9000 4 days ago
Chezmoi strikes a nice balance between the overkill of home-manager while still being more powerful than simpler solutions.

Yadm is another alternative, the main thing I don't like about it though is that I'm not a fan of cross OS dotfiles. Having niri files on my work Mac and aerospace dotfiles on Linux annoys me quite a bit.

As powerful as the templating in chezmoi is, I think it should be considered a last resort and only used for simple files. They break your editor features like highlighting.

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  > Having niri files on my work Mac and aerospace dotfiles on Linux annoys me quite a bit
https://www.chezmoi.io/reference/special-files/chezmoiignore...

  > They break your editor features like highlighting
https://github.com/alker0/chezmoi.vim