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Re:A decade of dotfiles by mschwaig on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:56AM (#31558059)
If you are talking about provisioning dot files and command line applications you want to have available on all you machines then take a look at home-manager.

https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

I use it on NixOS. It should absolutely work on other distros unfortunately I don't have any first hand experience with that or with what the best way is to set it up on other distos (I think there are few options for how to do it).

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Re:A decade of dotfiles by chrisweekly on Monday May 30, 2022 @09:42AM (#31558854)
> "there are few options"

I'm curious about your phrasing. In idiomatic English, this says "there are _not many_ options", IOW options are limited. It emphasizes the constraints. OTOH had you written "there are _a_ few options", it'd emphasize the existence of more than one option, with a positive connotation.

From context I infer you meant the latter, is that right?

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Re:A decade of dotfiles by mschwaig on Monday May 30, 2022 @04:00PM (#31563068)
Yes sorry. This was a typo.

I meant to write 'a few options'.

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