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  • ma1w4re@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml•How could GNU Stow help me with my configuration files?
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    2 days ago

    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.

    Hopefully my messages have been helpful.

  • ma1w4re@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml•How could GNU Stow help me with my configuration files?
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • ma1w4re@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why do you still hate Windows?
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    15 days ago

    Because windows is inconvenient for me.

    Nothing works as I expect it, terminal takes ages to open, everything lags like shit, annoying popups everywhere, every setting is hidden behind ten thousand menus, subpar packaging system, explorer crashes every so often, PATH is hard to access and modify, takes a PHD to install a raw compiler without visual studio, you can forget about shortcut system cus even with autohotkey it’s a pain.

    (Talking about permissions) Why do I have to write names of users from the ground and then click button “check if it actually exists” in a fucking gui? Couldn’t there be a drop down list?

    If you ever want to modify the windows iso image or make an automated script without using online services you’re just done mate. There’s nifty surprises like special software which name I so conveniently forgot (God bless) that can open the file image contained inside the iso image, but if that inner image has wrong format you have to spend time converting it. Then you’ll see some fucking insane shit in front of you, where you need to drag objects from a drop down list into different categories that have random ass names and not at all simple to understand even after reading official documentation. Oh you think that’s all? You can drop same objects into different categories and they will do different shit. I took TWO WEEKS WORTH OF CLASSES to work with that software and I ALREADY DONT REMEMBER JACK.

    Then there’s utterly long startup times even on ssds, colemak dh mod basically doesn’t exist… And that’s all I could remember out the top of my head.

    The only redeeming quality I’d say, is having a very simple setup for Japanese and Chinese IME. On arch KDE it took me awhile to set up fcitx with mozc the first time around.