Declarative workstation setup using Nix

Using Nix and nix flakes to setup my workstation. Nix can be used both to declaratively define system configuration and to install applications.

Nix can also manage per-project environment dependencies, which is really useful for development flow.

This guide will cover the initial setup and some tips on how to manage the system configuration for an osx device. Different operating systems will have different setup, so this guide will cover only osx.

Install Nix multi-user

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)

Initial setup

Clone the sample config from github.

git clone https://github.com/pcsssss/dotfiles-sample.git ~/Projects/dotfiles

This might take some time for the first run.

nix run  --extra-experimental-features flakes --extra-experimental-features nix-command nix-darwin -- switch --flake ~/Projects/dotfiles

Apply changes to the system after changing the flake

darwin-rebuild switch --flake ~/Projects/dotfiles

Sample nix system configuration

This github repo contains an example nix configuration that can be used as a starting point.