Linux

The NFS protocol offers almost nothing that tools like Chezmoi offer.

And Ansible? Yes, you can use it to only manage configuration files. Would I recommend it? Rather not. At least not for private use.

With Chezmoi, for example, you only need to remember a few commands for basic use (chezmoi add, chezmoi apply, chezmoi update). That should be easier for many users than creating an Ansible playbook. The fact that Ansible uses push and not pull in the default configuration might not be so good either for home users who might have just two computers.

Ansible is therefore not a good replacement for tools like Chezmoi in my opinion. These simply fill a gap between manually copying configuration files and tools like Ansible, Salt, etc.