Awesome dotfiles

A curated list of dotfiles resources. Inspired by the awesome list thing. Note that some articles or tools may look old or old-fashioned, but this usually means they’re battle-tested and mature (like dotfiles themselves). Feel free to propose new articles, projects or tools!

Articles

Introductions

Tutorials

Shell startup

Using specific tools

Find dotfiles repos

There are many great dotfiles repos out there, each containing their own inspiration and gems. One way to go through them is to search GitHub for “dotfiles”.

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Example dotfiles repos

A collection of the most popular, well-maintained, and collaborative dotfiles repositories & frameworks. Some projects contain just the dotfiles. Others go further by allowing you to easily add your own custom dotfiles, and some include scripts to manage dotfiles and plugins.

Bash

Title Description Focus
Bash it Community bash framework. Autocompletion, themes, aliases, custom functions. Well-structured framework.
Mathias’s dotfiles Sensible hacker defaults for macOS Lots of goodness here, great collaborative community effort.
Maximum Awesome Config files for vim and tmux Vim, tmux. Built for Mac OS X.
webpro’s dotfiles macOS dotfiles Bash, Homebrew, Brew Cask, Git, Node.js, Hammerspoon.
rootbeersoup’s dotfiles Effortless Bash, Vim and macOS configuration A curl \| sh installer and a Makefile offer portable and effortless setup for either permanent or temporary configuration.
Luke’s voidrice Arch linux dotfile bootstrap Bloatless, often suckless software. Vim config for editing documents in markdown or latex

Zsh

Title Description Focus
thoughtbot dotfiles Set of vim, zsh, git, and tmux configuration files Zsh, vim, tmux, git, homebrew. Uses rcm.
oh-my-zsh Community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 200+ optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, php, python, etc), over 140 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool.
Prezto The configuration framework for Zsh. Enriches the command line interface environment with sane defaults, aliases, functions, auto completion, and prompt themes.
YADR The best vim, git, zsh plugins and the cleanest vimrc you’ve ever seen Homebrew, zsh, git, vim, and more. Active repository.
antigen Plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle. Antigen is a small set of functions that help you easily manage your shell (zsh) plugins. Antigen is to zsh, what Vundle is to vim.
Dries’s dotfiles Simplified approach to dotfiles for macOS Zsh, Oh My Zsh, macOS, Homebrew, Mackup
sobolevn’s dotfiles Dotfiles for the developer happiness Zsh, Brew, Sublime, Python, Node, Elixir

Fish

Title Description Focus
oh-my-fish Community Fish framework. Includes many plugins and themes, with installation, auto-update, and scaffolding tools.
Paul’s dotfiles Abundant dotfiles with a plethora of cool custom functions Fish, macOS, Homebrew, Custom Shell functions
rkalis’s dotfiles Well-maintained dotfiles featuring Fish, repository management and Hammerspoon Fish, macOS, Homebrew, Repository management, Hammerspoon

Ansible

Title Description Focus
.dots New and upgraded dotfiles, now with Ansible! Completely automated desktop setup, configuration and maintenance using Ansible
sloria’s dotfiles sloria’s dotfiles as Ansible roles Sets up a full local development environment with a single command

Tools

macOS

Miscellaneous

Archive/abandoned projects

License

CC0

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