dotfiles

Declarative macOS setup for a single Apple Silicon Mac, built with nix-darwin, home-manager and nix-homebrew.

The whole configuration lives in flake.nix. It manages:

• system packages, fonts and macOS defaults (dock, Finder, Touch ID for sudo)
• Homebrew taps, formulae and casks (GUI apps)
• the dcunha user environment: zsh with zimfw, git, fzf, mise, ghostty

Bootstrap a new machine

1. Install Nix with flakes enabled (for example the Determinate installer).

2. Install Xcode Command Line Tools: xcode-select --install.

3. Clone this repo to ~/.config/nix:

   git clone git@github.com:danielsoro/dotfiles.git ~/.config/nix
   

4. Apply it for the first time:

   sudo nix run nix-darwin -- switch --flake ~/.config/nix#dcunha
   

   Homebrew is installed and migrated automatically by nix-homebrew on this run.

Day to day

After the first switch, darwin-rebuild is on the PATH and zsh has a switch alias:

switch                    # sudo darwin-rebuild switch --flake ~/.config/nix#dcunha
nix flake update          # bump flake.lock
nix flake check           # evaluate without applying
nixpkgs-fmt flake.nix     # format

Files under dotfiles/ are linked into the home directory by home-manager.

Contributing

Commits follow Conventional Commits and are managed with commitizen (.cz.toml). Changes go through pull requests.