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Dotfiles - My 2022 Way
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:author: tyrel
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:category: Tech
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:tags: dotfiles, macos, linux, nix, ubuntu,
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:status: published
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New Year's eve eve, my main portable computer crashed. Rebooting to Safe mode, I could mount this MacBook's hard drive long enough to SCP the files over the network to my server, but I had to start that over twice because it fell asleep. I don't have access to rsync in the "Network Recovery Mode" it seems - maybe I should look to see if next time I can install things, it's moot now.
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I spent all January 1st evening working on learning how Nix works. Of course, I started with Nix on macOS (intel at least) so I had to also learn how nix-darwin works. I have my `dotfiles <https://gitea.tyrel.dev/tyrel/dotfiles>`_ set up to use Nix now, rather than an `INSTALL.sh` file that just sets a bunch of symlinks.
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I played around for a litle bit with different structures, but what I ended up with by the end of the weekend was two bash scripts (still working on makefile, env vars are being funky) one for each operating system `rebuild-macos.sh` and `rebuild-ubuntu.sh`. For now I'm only Nixifying one macOS system and two Ubuntu boxes. Avoiding it on my work m1 Mac laptop, as I don't want to have to deal with managing `synthetic.conf` and mount points on a work managed computer. No idea how JAMF and Nix will fight.
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My filetree currently looks like (trimmed out a host and a bunch of files in `home/`)
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.. code-block:: none
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├── home
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│ ├── bin/
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│ ├── config/
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│ ├── gitconfig
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│ ├── gitignore
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│ ├── gpg/
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│ ├── hushlogin
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│ └── ssh/
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├── hosts/
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│ ├── _common/
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│ │ ├── fonts.nix
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│ │ ├── home.nix
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│ │ ├── programs.nix
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│ │ └── xdg.nix
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│ ├── ts-tl-mbp/
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│ │ ├── brew.nix
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│ │ ├── default.nix
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│ │ ├── flake.lock
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│ │ ├── flake.nix
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│ │ ├── home-manager.nix
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│ │ └── home.nix
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│ └── x1carbon-ubuntu/
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│ ├── default.nix
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│ ├── flake.lock
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│ ├── flake.nix
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│ ├── home-manager.nix
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│ └── home.nix
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├── rebuild-macos.sh
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└── rebuild-ubuntu.sh
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Under `hosts/` as you can see, I have a `brew.nix <https://gitea.tyrel.dev/tyrel/dotfiles/src/branch/main/hosts/ts-tl-mbp/brew.nix>`_ file in my macbook pro's folder. This is how I install anything in homebrew. In my `flake.nix` for my macos folder I am using `home-manager`, `nix-darwin`, and `nixpkgs`. I provide this `brew.nix` to my `darwinConfigurations` and it will install anything I put in my `brew` nixfile.
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I also have a `_common` directory in my `hosts`, this is things that are to be installed on EVERY machine. Things such as `bat`, `wget`, `fzf`, `fish`, etc. along with common symlinks and xdg-config links. My nvim and fish configs are installed and managed this way. Rather than need to maintain a neovim config for every different system, in the nix way, I can just manage it all in `_common/programs.nix`.
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This is not "The Standard Way" to organize things, if you want more inspiration, I took a lot from my friend `Andrey's Nixfiles <https://github.com/shazow/nixfiles>`_. I was also chatting with him a bunch during this, so I was able to get three systems up and configured in a few days. After the first ubuntu box was configured, it was super easy to manage my others.
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My `home/` directory is where I store my config files. My ssh public keys, my gpg public keys, my `~/.<dotfiles>` and my `~/.config/<files>`. This doesn't really need any explaination, but as an added benefit is I also decided to LUA-ify my nvim configs the same weekend. But that's a story for another time.
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I am at this time choosing not to do NixOS - and relying on Ubuntu for managing my OS. I peeked into Andrey's files, and I really don't want to have to manage a full system configuration, drivers, etc. with Nix. Maybe for the future - when my Lenovo X1 Carbon dies and I need to reinstall that though.
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