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My .config Ship of Theseus

12 pointsby jacobwiseberglast Friday at 6:00 AM3 commentsview on HN

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Leonard_of_Qtoday at 1:27 PM

I sort of get the appeal of fine-tuning the terminal environment to perfection but after fiddling with such things for many years - decades - I ended up using mostly stock settings with a very few changes. The advantage of that approach is that I feel at home just about anywhere instead of just on my one or few customised systems. My customisations mostly consist of a local /bin directory with a few hundred scripts (wc -l now shows 263) I made over the years which I dump in a new environment plus a few additions to .bashrc (yes, bash, not one of the fancy replacements (zsh, fish, oil, ...) which are supposed to be better but in reality just end up being different) to set custom paths etc.

clircletoday at 12:59 PM

I’m moving slowly in the direction of Guix home for dotfile management, but until it covers all my bases, I’m fond of the gnu stow method

nailertoday at 1:15 PM

Never understood the point of having a dotfile for all of config when config is the point of dotfiles.

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