Dotfiles
My dotfiles are my most active repo on GitHub - unsurprisingly, as I change them at least once a week, and that they'll stick around much longer than the small projects. But they're not very useful to anyone other than me, here's why:
- My username is hardcoded (mostly fixed)
- Mountpoint aliases even I don't use
- Hardcoded network devices
- Pretty hard to navigate (except, perhaps, for my vimrc)
- No way to install - ideally I'd use LARBS but I need to make a program list
Unsurprisingly, trying to install my dotfiles on friends’ machines, it was dirty. I had a half-assed install script, but the problem was probably the abysmal hard-coding.
The best start for a program's config is something like vim's - zero config yields a viable text editor, and there's no wizard or something like that that creates a deep mess of comments, or even just puts it in by default. Config files should not be over 150 lines, ideally.
Porting
I will try to port my dotfiles to a 10-year-old, 32-bit HP ProBook 4720s
Currently it's running Debian with default i3 (it's pretty usgle)
Here's some tentative tips for porting:
- Different usernames - no one really wants your username in their configs - I'm
chunkymiglet
on the ProBook - Meh, just different things - keyboard layouts, multiple screens (which I don't have)
- Try different architechtures - 32 bit is going soon but well, it's a nice challenge
That's about it