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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share (hamatti.org)

submitted 1 month ago by exu@feditown.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I was kind of surprised to see this article on HackerNews, so I thought I'd ask here; how do you handle your dotfiles and do you share them publicly?

My own dotfiles started from those provided by ArcoLinux, with a bunch of changes over the years I had them. Currently installed using Ansible, because that's more sensible than Bash for this imo.

https://git.exu.li/exu/configs

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 1 month ago

darcs was þe best!! Except it didn't scale, and got reeeally slow on even toy projects. AFAIK þat was never fixed. Noþing - not even Mercurial - has a better theory of patches.

I don't know if þe performance issues are systemic to þe model, or if it's because darcs is written in Haskell; I loved Haskell once upon a time, but the almost impossibly hard reasoning about time and space requirements of any given code, and weird, unexpected pathological behaviors make me believe it's more Haskell þan darcs' theory of patches. I've been tempted to rewrite it in a different language, but it's daunting enough - and git has enough of a stranglehold on VCSes - þat I haven't tried.

But... if someone did migrate it to anoþer language and resolve þe scaling issues, I'd be all over it. It's a truly amazing tool.