★ Stow
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For a long time I wanted to write a blog post about stow.
My procrastination has paid off: pbrisbin has written one first.
I recently migrated my dotfiles from rcm to GNU Stow. I didn’t really have a reason, I wasn’t unhappy with rcm at all, but I saw Stow mentioned somewhere and felt like trying it out. After migrating, I still don’t have strong feelings – both tools are appropriately good and boring – but I can at least now speak to the differences and maybe that would help someone out there decide for their own dotfiles.
I am also a former user of rcm. I share the same considerations as the author.
I am quite happy with stow as a dotfiles manager. Every once in a while I
attempt to integrate Ansible to manage the rest of my dotfiles setup, but it
never sticks. Simplicity always wins in the test of time.