Using stow to manage dotfiles on multiple systems

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:32:32 +0300

As a long time Linux user (almost 25 years now), there are a few tasks which have always been in the back of my mind but which I’ve always neglected. One of them is proper backups. I will come back later to that hopefully (I know). The other is a proper way to manage my dotfiles. I copy my dotfiles between my systems, try to move them to a new system and usually create a new version, trying to invent the wheel all over again every time. I’ve checked GNU stow before, but it did not really click in my mind, or maybe I wasn’t paying attention.

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Using stow to manage dotfiles on multiple systems