When one spend enough time using window managers configuration files can pile up fast.. How do you keep them safe?
- Do you copy to an external drive?
- Do you upload to a cloud service?
- Do you have a dedicated git repository?
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Nix as the config tool + git. I use the same repo for all my systems so all my devices back each other up on top of the hosted git repo.
Oh nice! I would switch to to NixOS for all those goodies but it is above my pay grade jejeje. I saw some time ago a fork of NixOS designed for not-so-tech-savy users so I have been checking it ever so often.
I won't lie, it was a learning curve. That said you don't have to go full blown nixos. I use nix + home manager to manage my macOS and Ubuntu user dotfiles.
You can also use nix per project with dev shells and direnv to automatically load the dev shell when in the repo.
I maintain a nix config for my work's repo and it keeps everyone (Mac or Linux) on the exact same version of our tooling (node, python, bash, etc.).