Dotfiles Revolution: How I Manage My Entire dev Environment with Chezmoi

[EN] Dotfiles Revolution: How I Manage My Entire dev Environment with Chezmoi If you’re a developer, you’ve probably experienced it: setting up a new machine is painful. Your aliases, configurations, keybindings, favorite tools — everything you spent years perfecting lives scattered across .bashrc, .zshrc, .vimrc, and dozens of other config files. And when you get a new work laptop or reinstall your OS? Start from scratch. I’ve been there. After years of manually copying configs between machines, I decided to finally solve this properly. This is the story of how I built a fully automated, cross-platform dotfiles system using chezmoi that handles everything from my shell aliases to my Neovim config to my terminal emulators — across macOS, Fedora (both regular and Atomic), Raspberry Pi, and Windows. ...

February 14, 2026 Â· Jerome Soyer