Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

The author migrated from GNU Stow to Chezmoi for managing dotfiles across multiple machines because Stow's symlink-based approach caused conflicting edits and synchronization issues across devices. Chezmoi solves these problems by maintaining a single source of truth in a git repository with real files rather than symlinks, and it supports templating and scripting for machine-specific configurations and bootstrapping. The author now uses Chezmoi to track dotfiles, application configs, Homebrew packages, and macOS settings across three Macs.