The “MuseHub 2.0” part worries me. Muse Hub is an incredibly useless and bloated launcher I didn’t ask for sneakily bundled with MuseScore that constantly attempts to run in the background as if it was malware.
This works perfectly! Fedora actually installed like a normal distro on my primary disk. Since my primary is faster, I will remove debian from my secondary now.
There are other dotfile managers out there, personally I use yadm. It’s just a shell wrapper around a bare git repository, no symlinks or other magic needed
yadm is the one I liked the best and tried it a few times. fact is that I am unlikely to keep a repo like this even part way up to date. New files are created all the time and not added, old ones don’t get updated or removed. There’s not even a good way to notice in any file manager what is included and what’s not as far as I know. yadm doesn’t work with tools like eza which can display the git status of files in repos. (and it probably wouldn’t be feasible.)
Plus I have some specific config collections already in change tracking and it makes more sense to keep it that way. Having so many unrelated files together in one project is too chaotic and distracting.
It’s not realistic for me to manage merges, modules, cherry picking, branches all that for so many files that change constantly without direct intervention. Quickly enough git will tie itself into some knot and I won’t be able to pick it apart.
Recreating a path to original locations is a way to configure stow.
You can utilize bash to automate it. Mkdir can create entire trees in a single command.
After links were created you start using your configured software.
It’s a link farm built using a packaging system. You put your configs into a “package” and then link said package where it belongs.
Git is useful not as a combination for stow, but a standalone way to version control your configs.
For nonidentical devices you create additional packages prefixed with specific device name. You don’t need to link all packages at once with stow, pass a name of a package to link it alone.
For nonidentical devices you create additional packages prefixed with specific device name. You don’t need to link all packages at once with stow, pass a name of a package to link it alone.uuu
Sooo… I find some way to share the dotfiles directory across devices (rsync, syncthing, git, nextcloud, DAV) then make specific subdirs like this?:
But what is the software doing for me? I’m manually moving all these files and putting them together in the specific way requested. Setting the whole thing up is most of the work. Anyone who can write a script to create the structure can just as easily write it to make symlinks. I’m sure I’m missing something here.
Sorry if it comes out robotic, since I don’t use stow myself I just opened the manual and parsed it for you.
You manually create the repo of packages ONCE and then use stow to deploy them without having to link stuff manually every time.
As for “what’s it doing for me”, stow is just a generic deployment script that somebody else has written for you. You can just as well create your own and do it your way.
I personally used to have a bash script with one custom function “symlink” that error checked the linking process and a list of target/destination under the function.
Now I’m trying to code a python script similar to stow that works with packages of configs but instead of recreating paths inside the package you just provide a json file with target/destination for each file in the package.
Both of my ways have same shortcoming as stow: you have to do some manual work before the script can kick in.
That is the phonetic spelling of how you’re supposed to say SUSE. It’s. SUSAhhh, like appaloosa. I know this because I watch that goofy video on youtube.
Since SUSE has its roots in Germany (it stands for Software und Systementwicklung) I think the German pronunciation would be correct which is a little different. Both S are soft and the E is short. Like “Zoos” + “Eh”.
Yeah, I’m not sure what their thinking with these pronunciation videos is. In the last frame of the video, they even show the phonetic pronunciation with a schwa, which is certainly not how the guy pronounces it.
We do also have an actual word “Suse” in German, which has a documented pronunciation: www.dwds.de/wb/Suse
That’s… all stow does, there’s nothing more to it. If you need some other feature don’t waste your time trying to make it work with stow, It’s just a meme in my opinion.
About the “package manager” functionality, stow was originally supposed to be a development tool for the Perl programming language, you download a bunch of libraries into a directory, then use stow to merge those files into the root of your project (like a caveman), as it turned out some people started using it to manage dotfiles, and here we are.
When I started trying to organize my dotfiles, I started with stow, but quickly found it very limited.
After that I found dotdrop, which is considerably more involved, but gives you total control. My config with dotdrop quickly started growing insanely huge, at some point I even had system-wide systemd services declared.
Then I found out I was basically reinventing nixos and home-manager, so I switched to that.
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