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I used stow for a long time, then tried Ansible, but eventually settled into good old Make.

`make dotfiles` just creates a bunch of symlinks, takes 5 minutes, all good and happy. Everything is modular, declarative, simple. Never looked back.

I think this is likely a part of the friction for a lot of people - symlinks.

There's roughly two main ways to manage dotfiles:

- symlink

- copy & sync

The 2nd (what chez moi does) is pretty hard to get right from a UX perspective.