rennsax / dotfiles

My personal dotfiles. ❤️

dotfiles

My personal dotfiles. Managed with Nix Flake.

Installation

NOTE: home-manager needs to know your username. You can run ./script/patch-vars to change the username in the configurations to your own username.

Nix

To use the dotfiles, first install Nix (not necessarily on NixOS). Nix is a powerful package manager and build system. I recommend using nix-installer from DeterminateSystems.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install

Optionally, if you prefer to install Nix non-interactively:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install --no-confirm

NixOS

make init-nixos

macOS

make init-darwin

Ubuntu

Nix does not manage the system-width configuration for Ubuntu, so I use a script to quickly bootstrap Ubuntu system environment.

# Check the script content to see some useful options.
./scripts/init-ubuntu
make init-home

Notes:

• make init-home only affects user-level configurations. Therefore, it even does not require “sudo”, as long as you have correctly installed Nix.
• So it won’t change the user’s default shell which needs to touch the system file /etc/passwd. You may manually set the default with chsh(1).

See Also

• rennsax/init.lua: My neovim configuration. (I do not use Neovim anymore, hence it may be obsolete.)
• rennsax/.emacs.d: My Emacs configuration. 🍓

References

• XDG Base Directory - ArchWiki
• zsh-intro.pdf
• Configuring Zsh Without Dependencies
• Zsh Plugin Standard
• ryan4yin/nix-config
• Determinate Systems: Effortless dev environments with Nix and direnv