Dotfiles with make
https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/managing-dotfiles-with-make
Make is an old tool, an assembly language of sorts for build systems. Many have tried to replace it. Many have tried to reinvent it. Most people prefer to avoid it if at all possible. So why use it to manage dotfiles of all things?
Nix/NixOS is the new “dotfiles golf” - and that’s awesome
https://whynot.fail/nixos/the-new-dotfile-golf/
Sets of dotifile hacks are now their own “packages” (flakes in nix world) that anyone can use - stylix for example, which tries to do the impossible: make the theming/styling consistent across the whole OS, from NeoVim to GTK to Plymouth, all with the same colors and wallpapers.