Install nix with nix-installer

Download nix-installer at https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/releases and then run it.

Assume the installation IS NOT customized. So nix-command and flakes are assumed to be enabled.

nix-installer does a couple of things, some of those will be taken over by nix-darwin:

• /etc/synthetic.conf
• /etc/nix/nix.conf
• /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist
• /etc/bashrc
• /etc/zshrc
• /etc/zshenv

Install nix-darwin and home-manager

git clone [email protected]:iawaknahc/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles

ln -s ~/dotfiles ~/.config/home-manager
sudo ln -s ~/dotfiles /etc/nix-darwin

nix run nix-darwin -- switch
nix run home-manager -- switch

Making changes

cd ~/dotfiles

# Make your changes.
# You cannot make changes directly to the managed files because
# they are symlinks to files in the nix store.

# Apply the changes.
home-manager switch

# Finally, use ordinary git commands to record the changes.
git add .
git commit

Uninstall home-manager

# Open Terminal.app and make sure the shell is /bin/zsh
# This is to ensure we are not running something that we are going to uninstall.

nix --extra-experimental-features "nix-command flakes" run home-manager -- uninstall

Uninstall nix-darwin

nix --extra-experimental-features "nix-command flakes" run nix-darwin#darwin-uninstaller