It intentionally does not switch to Nix Home Manager, chezmoi, yadm, or stow. Those are all viable, but this repo already works as a bare git repo at $HOME/.cfg, and plain scripts keep the setup easy to inspect and extend.

Fresh Install #

Linux:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TylerSchmidtke/dotfiles/main/bootstrap/linux.sh | bash

macOS:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TylerSchmidtke/dotfiles/main/bootstrap/macos.sh | bash

If local files would be overwritten during dotfile checkout, the script stops. On an intentionally fresh machine, rerun with:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TylerSchmidtke/dotfiles/main/bootstrap/linux.sh | DOTFILES_FORCE=1 bash

or:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TylerSchmidtke/dotfiles/main/bootstrap/macos.sh | DOTFILES_FORCE=1 bash

What It Does #

The scripts install the tools implied by the current configs:

Nushell, Starship, fnm, Rust, Go, uv, and .NET tooling.
Helix plus LSP/debug tooling for Rust, Go, C#, GDScript, Python, Bash, TOML, JSON, YAML, Markdown, and prose linting with Harper.
Terminal tools including yazi, mdterm, gitui, lazygit, bat, zellij, k9s, kubectl, helm, gh, ripgrep, fd, fzf, zoxide, and Ghostty terminfo support.
Dotfiles checkout into $HOME from the bare repo at $HOME/.cfg.
Nushell local files, submodules, bat theme cache, Rust components, Go tools, uv tools, .NET global tools, and an fnm-managed LTS Node runtime.

Extending #

Add package-manager packages in bootstrap/lib/bootstrap.sh.
Add language-native installers in install_language_tools.
Keep secrets out of this repo. Use local ignored files like ~/.config/nushell/local.nu for machine-specific values.