You're an avid OSS contributer, with a day job. You have a work computer courtesy of your company and Apple, and a personal computer that's linux. You install a shiny new monitoring tool at home, then go to work and ... no surprises its not there. You install it manually at work. Rinse and repeat for every single tool, all 30 of them. You go on a job hunt, get a new mac, boom! All of that setup on your old work laptop is gone.
Wouldn't it be great to have a development environment that grows with you instead of holding you back? Docker is great and helps tremendously, but doesn't quite hit the bare metal audience as well as it could, so you're left with Nix.
I think the tooling nix provides is unmatched in a lot of ways. There's no sugar coating the unwieldy learning curve, but there's no understating how nice it is to say git pull && rebuild to have a perfect 1:1 clone of your development environment between all your machines.
- Install nix, enable flakes
- Clone this repo
- nixos-rebuild switch --flake
nvimthen:checkhealthto ensure everything is in working order
- Install Git & Add an SSH key that has access to this repo
- Create Key
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]" - Copy Key
pbcopy $(cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub) - Add key to GH account
- Install Nix, enable flakes
- Install
- Enable Flakes
echo experimental-features=nix-command flakes > ~/.config/nix/nix.conf
- Clone this Repo
cd $THISREPO- Look in
flake.nixand decide on a system that fits your needs. Generally speaking use nixos for linux or papa-laptop for mac. These systems have been dogfooded for years.
nix build .#darwinConfigurations.papa-laptop.system
./result/sw/bin/darwin-rebuild switch --flake .#papa-laptop
nix build ".#nixosConfigurations.nixos.system"
sudo ./result/sw/bin/nixos-rebuild switch --flake ".#nixos"
- Restart your computer, open a terminal, type
nvimand when nvim opens type:checkhealth. All plugins and language runtimes should be installed and ready to dev
This Nix config was heavily inspired by https://github.com/fmoda3/nix-configs/tree/master/home.
Thank you very much to Nobbz, who was an invaluable resource learning nix