sys

My system configuration (currently for an M-series macOS device.)

I use nix-darwin to manage my system. This allows me to rebuild the state as and when, and do so across multiple machines.

Tools used

• nix-darwin
• nix-homebrew

References I used

• Nix installation docs
• The nix-darwin & nix-homebrew docs (see above)
• This great blog post by Dhananjay Balan
• How to auto refresh all (most?) macOS settings after applying flake

TODO

• Investigate nix-colors pkg (for settings consistent colours across apps)
• Update fish config with aliases (gp, gpa, gswm etc)
• Get working with multiple users

Setting up the system

1. Install xcode dev tools.

xcode-select --install

2. Give Terminal.app full disk access (see here)

   This allows nix-darwin to configure things like com.apple.universalaccess.

   System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Acces > select Terminal.app

   TODO: Find out if I need to do this for kitty too, for future runs after everything including kitty is installed.

3. Install nix (see here).

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)

4. Clone this repo.

cd  ~/Developer

git clone [email protected]:jakecleary/sys.git

5. Install nix-darwin.

nix run nix-darwin -- switch --flake ~/Developer/sys

6. Init system using nix-darwin

darwin-rebuild switch --flake ~/Developer/sys

Applying config changes to the system

darwin-rebuild switch --flake ~/Developer/sys

Updating existing package sources & packages

1. Update input sources.

nix flake update

2. Update packages based on updated input sources.

darwin-rebuild switch --flake /Developer/sys