My personal pc configuration

This is my personal pc configuration. It is based on nixos and uses flakes. Important! This configuration works only on darwin systems.(MacOS) with Apple Silicon chips.

Features

• Base MacOS configuration (in a declarative way🤩).
• Homebrew with all the packages I need, like UI Applications, CLI tools and fonts.
• Stow as dotfile manager

Installation

1. Clone this repository on your $HOME/dev/dotfiles directory.
2. Add right permissions to files

chmod 777 ./scripts/*

3. Run the setup script

./scripts/setup.sh

Usage

setup.sh is the only and right way to use the repo. it handles different actions:

• Install: Setup the pc
• Uninstall: Reset all to base configuration
• Reset Mac Preferences: Reset to default all properties
• Refresh dotfiles: Refresh all dotifles
• Update: update all apps

Apps and packages available

Development Apps

• Terminal:
  • Ghostty
• IDE:
  • Neovim
  • VSCode
  • Zed Default Choice
• Shell: zsh
• Containers Development: Podman
• Figma Desktop: Figma

CLI Tools

• Starship: A minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell.

• Zoxide: A faster way to navigate your filesystem (cd replacement).

• Bat: A cat(1) clone with wings.

• Ripgrep: A search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern..

• Eza: A modern replacement for ls.

• Tmux: A terminal multiplexer.

• LazyGit: A terminal UI for git.

• Fnm: A NodeJs version manager.

• Bun: A modern Js runtime.

• Zsh-autosuggestions: Fish-like autosuggestions for Zsh.

• Zsh-syntax-highlighting: Fish shell-like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

• Zsh-completions: Additional completion definitions for Zsh.

• Gitmoji: An emoji guide for your commit messages.

• Pnpm: A fast, disk space efficient package manager.

Fonts (All via nerd-fonts)

• Fira Code
• JetBrains Mono
• Geist

Mac utilities

• AltTab: A window switcher for MacOS.
• Raycast: A command launcher for MacOS.
• Mas: A CLI for the Mac App Store.
• Rectangle: A window manager for MacOS.
• Ice: A powerful menu bar management tool.

UI Apps

• Arc: A chrome based browser.
• Zen: Firefox based browser.
• Spotify: A music streaming service.
• Telegram: A messaging app.
• Whatsapp: A messaging app.
• Discord: A messaging app.
• Notion: A note-taking app.
• Notion Calendar: Calendar application.
• Spark: Mail client applciation.
• RunCat: A cute cat that runs on your desktop.
• Dashlane: A password manager.
• Flow: A Focus application.

Next Steps

• Export and imports using defaults of mac apps
• Define and map keybindings
• Make it available for WLS2 and Linux (without homebrew casks)
• Configure neovim
• Configure vscode

Tools to try

• Ddgr: DuckDuckGo from the terminal.
• Fz: A plugin that seamlessly adds fuzzy search to tab completion.
• Aerospace: A window manager for MacOS.