How have you automated configuring your machines in terms of packages and dotfiles so it works cross-distro?
How have you automated configuring your machines in terms of packages and dotfiles so it works cross-distro?
I'm looking for interesting tools to automate managing packaging and configuring everything automated.
And yeah I know about NixOS but I like to distro hop and experiment so I for now know these:
- Ansible - automating many machines, using different package names as vars and package managers.
- Bash - the most native and compatible scripting language that can be.
- Chezmoi - for dotfiles.
For now that's it. I'm looking forward for your suggestions!
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Most of my files are different across machines because of different themes etc. The only dotfiles I have synced across machines are my
.zshrc,.gitconfig,.ideavimrc(not my actual vimrc because it has some machine-specific theming), and.p10k.zsh. I have them all in a folder synced with syncthing and then I symlink~/.zshrcto e.g.~/dotfiles/.zshrc.Chezmoi has an amazing templating feature to address different files on different machines. It’s worth the time to set up.