Open-source alternatives to Openboot

Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere

Templated dotfile management without template files!

Mackup is a dotfile backup manager and application settings backup tool designed to keep software configuration files consistent across multiple computers. It functions by copying home directory configuration files into a centralized storage folder for preservation, restoration, and synchronization. The utility utilizes a symbolic link manager to replace local configuration files with symlinks pointing to a synchronized folder, enabling real-time updates. It supports cloud storage integration, allowing these configuration directories to be mirrored to remote backends for cross-machine environ

Home Manager is a declarative framework for managing user-specific packages, dotfiles, and services. It serves as a tool for maintaining reproducible home directory setups and user environments across multiple machines using the Nix package manager. The system functions as a declarative dotfile manager, defining application configuration files from a central source to ensure consistency. It allows for the management of user-level software packages and the automation of background processes and services that start upon user login.

A dotfile manager with templating

A dotfile manager and templater written in rust 🦀

yadm is a dotfile manager that uses Git as its underlying version control engine to track, synchronize, and manage configuration files across multiple machines. It keeps dotfiles in their original home directory locations while providing a system for deploying different file versions based on operating system, hostname, or hardware architecture through an alternate file naming convention. The tool distinguishes itself through several integrated capabilities that go beyond basic version control. It includes a template-based configuration generation system that renders files by merging template

Themer is a color palette theme generator that produces matching color themes for editors, terminals, and other applications from a single color set. It accepts Base16 YAML color schemes as input and can generate themes programmatically through an async generator function or from the command line. The project distinguishes itself by supporting custom color sets and custom template render functions, allowing users to define their own output formats for unsupported applications. It also generates matching desktop wallpapers in SVG or PNG format from the same color palette used for application t

rc file (dotfile) management

chezmoi is a command-line utility designed to manage and synchronize system configuration files across multiple machines. It uses a local Git repository as the single source of truth, allowing users to track, version, and distribute dotfiles while maintaining a consistent state across diverse operating systems and hardware architectures. The project distinguishes itself through a declarative reconciliation model that computes the difference between the current filesystem and the desired state defined in the repository. It features a robust templating engine that processes configuration files

Fully cross platform dotfile manager and dev environment bootstrapper written in Rust.