Yes, that's why due to yet another totally unrelated quirk of history you
> have all the basic hidden stuff which ... such as .config
> but I only leave those dotfiles in place which work identically across the different systems I use
or you can use a better solution like chezmoi config manager and have templates to allow you to store changes even for those files while retaining the history of changes
But the most important piece of advice is missing: get an Everything-like utility (fsearch is a worse alternative on Linux) and bind it to an easy shortcut, that'd be very often the fastest way to find any file and not have to remember all those folder hierarchies (not that they aren't useful)
Yes, that's why due to yet another totally unrelated quirk of history you
> have all the basic hidden stuff which ... such as .config
> but I only leave those dotfiles in place which work identically across the different systems I use
or you can use a better solution like chezmoi config manager and have templates to allow you to store changes even for those files while retaining the history of changes
But the most important piece of advice is missing: get an Everything-like utility (fsearch is a worse alternative on Linux) and bind it to an easy shortcut, that'd be very often the fastest way to find any file and not have to remember all those folder hierarchies (not that they aren't useful)