When it comes to dotfile management, I find that the method of using a git bare repository is the easiest and most straight forward method to use. However, it comes with two limitations that bothered me quite a lot. It doesn't have any command line completion by default and it has the annoying checkout issue during migration to new systems. dotbare is a command line utility that by default wraps around git bare repository and aims to provide an interactive experience with the help of fzf.

Introduction rcm is a dotfles (rc files) management tool that consists of four programs, rcup, rcdn, mkrc and lsrc. It is open source, and is maintained and funded by thoughtbot, inc. I used to copy all my files to a dotfiles folder in my home directory, then use GNU/stow to make all the symlinks and it worked fine, until I found rcm and my dotfiles game was on a higher level immediately.

MANJARO Manjaro is arch based distribution targeted at users ranging from low intermediate all the way to experts. Compared to arch it has 3 branches of package repositories. First and least stable branch is called unstable and this branch is somewhat closest to arch model rolling release, all packages will first arive here. After days of testing in unstable branch they will get pushed to Testing branch where a bigger userbase will recieve them.