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What's the best way to restore your desktop environment after install?
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My entire .dotfiles is in GitHub. Anything I want to keep common across machines is stored there and either inserted in PATH or symlinked as needed.
Second this, just be mindful not to sync anything sensitive in there.
@Jamie
Using a dotfiles manager makes it a little easier to avoid, even if it's just GNU Stow.
@muddybulldog
Stow is good and I’d recommend it for someone starting out. By the time I found about it I had already written a silly amount of code from scratch to accomplish effectively the same thing.
@muddybulldog
After using a small install script of my own for a while, I switched to yadm. It's nice because it's a shell script, so no need to compile on different architectures/UNIXen.
Thanks for this. Someone else has mentioned this a while back and I completely forgot what it was called. Which is ironic given what the acronym stands for. I’ll give it a second look.