dotfiles

Environment

• Ubuntu 22.04
• macOS

Tools

• zsh
• tmux
• neovim
• Nix + Devbox

Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/guni1192/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
./scripts/init.sh setup-all

Run ./scripts/init.sh with no arguments to print the available subcommands, and invoke one individually with e.g. ./scripts/init.sh setup-zsh.

macOS: Nix + Devbox

scripts/init.sh installs both for you, idempotently:

• Nix: via the Determinate Systems installer (install --no-confirm, installing upstream Nix CE — we deliberately skip --determinate to keep the nixbld group compatible with any leftover upstream installs). Multi-user, daemon-based, Apple Silicon ready. On a fresh machine this creates /nix as an APFS volume; reopen the terminal after the script finishes so nix-daemon.sh is sourced into login shells. In containers without systemd, setup_nix falls back to the upstream installer in --no-daemon single-user mode.
• Devbox: via get.jetify.com/devbox, a thin wrapper over Nix that pins tool versions in devbox.json.

To verify after init.sh:

nix --version
devbox version
devbox global list

Devbox global profile

This repo ships a global devbox profile at devbox/devbox.json. scripts/init.sh setup-devbox creates ~/.local/share/devbox/global/default as a real directory, symlinks devbox.json and devbox.lock into it (so the per-environment .devbox/ state — which contains absolute /nix/store paths — stays local to each host and container), and runs devbox global install to materialize every pinned tool into the global Nix profile.

Common commands:

devbox global list                    # show installed packages
devbox global add <pkg>@<version>     # add a package (edits devbox.json)
devbox global update                  # bump versions in devbox.lock
devbox global install                 # apply devbox.json after pulling changes

zsh/devbox.zsh evaluates devbox global shellenv for interactive shells, so any package added to devbox/devbox.json becomes available in new shells after devbox global install.

Copilot LSP

@github/copilot-language-server is an npm package (not in nixpkgs). The devbox init_hook installs it globally into ~/.local/npm-global/bin; it is evaluated once by scripts/init.sh setup-devbox after devbox global install completes. To force a reinstall:

npm install -g @github/copilot-language-server@latest

Dev Container

See .devcontainer/README.md for trying this repo in a Dev Container.