dot.me

Here's some good configs https://github.com/podiki/dot.me (nonguix maintainer) https://codeberg.org/hako/Testament (guix and nonguix maintainer) https://codeberg.org/cmargiotta/dotfiles (good gaming stuff) https://codeberg.org/daviwil/dotfiles/src/branch/guix-home (I modeled off this) https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes

Hello, author here, happy to answer questions and discuss! This is the first in more Guix articles coming from me, as I started when building my newest desktop [0]. Next will be more details on exactly how my system is set up, but you can find (somewhat out of date as we work on big updates in Guix) my dot files here [1]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28628344 [1] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/tree/master/guix/.config

I better get right on it! If you are curious, you can see my current Guix config here [0], though not very commented. But those files (combined with the rest of my dot files) would reproduce this system configuration. [0] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/tree/master/guix/.config

Personally, I use git [0] along with GNU stow [1], combined with making the files directly from a literate Readme.org (e.g. [2]). I sync this repository between machines to update files, and when I make changes in the org-mode Readme file it automatically generates the new file. There are ways to pull in changes made to that file directly, but haven't needed to do that. My repo doesn't walk you through it completely, but I think is pretty straightforward. If you want to see it in action along with a few links and pointers, do take a look at [0]. I really like having it all together in one place, and with org-mode everything is very (human) readable. [0] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ [2] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/blob/master/x11/README.org

Some other resources that may be helpful for anyone looking is (of course) the Arch wiki [0]. I also found it helpful to set somethings like DPI based on the machine (I share my dot files across my computers) which can be done pretty easily using e.g. the hostname [1]. (Note that GitHub doesn't perfectly render the org file, you'd want to see the raw file for details if interested in literal dotfiles.) [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI [1] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/tree/master/x11

STOW is great, it is simple and works well especially combined with git. That's what I do [0], and recently combined it with org-mode for literate programming, so each program has just a README.org that then generates all the files via org tangle [1] [2]. For example, here is my file that generates my Xorg configuration [3] over several files, nicely readable on GitHub, in Emacs, or just as plain text. [0] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/ [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190924102437/https://expoundit... [2] https://orgmode.org/manual/Working-with-Source-Code.html [3] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/tree/master/x11