I heavily utilize macOS, BSD and various Linux distributions, so it's important that these dotfiles work consistently across them all.
As such, I utilize Nix with home-manager.
Please don't consider this a great basis for your own configuration - it works well for me! As such, some things may make assumptions you would not as well :)
A few assumptions are made, reflecting my current knowledge of Nix:
- All Darwin machines are assumed to be desktop devices.
- (This is not true, but... we'll take it.)
- All Linux machines are... not, and fit a dotfiles-only configuration.
- (This is not true, but for the most part works due to packages being provided by other package managers.)
This may require things to be adapted based on the platform.
git clone https://git.joscomputing.space/spotlight/dotfiles ~/.config/home-manager
# Or as otherwise described for flake usage within the Home Manager manual:
# https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html#sec-flakes-standalone
nix run home-manager/master -- init --switch