shawn's (declarative) nix/flakes macos dotfiles 👨🏼‍💻

info

this main branch of my dotfiles repo contains my latest attempt at bootstrapping macos with (mostly) declarative configs. here, i use nix-darwin and nix-flakes, along with as few instances of stow to avoid porting certain configs (like neovim) into flakes.

devices

• mac studio m2 ultra running macos sequoia 15.2
• macbook pro m3 max running macos sequoia 15.2

useful commands when running initial setup

• xcode-select —install
• softwareupdate --install-rosetta
• chsh -s /run/current-system/sw/bin/fish
• eval (ssh-agent -c)
• darwin-rebuild switch --flake ~/Nix

other notes

• download R lang directly from CRAN (instead of from Nix/Nix Brew) so that library is exposed for R.nvim
• download R lang server through CRAN to facilitate autocompletions in nvim:

install.packages("languageserver")