.dotfiles

My personal dotfiles setup. Based off glsignal's setup.

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To set up a new computer,

1. git clone this repo
2. remove any dotfiles currently in the home directory that you want to replace with these
3. cd into the repo and run ./setup.sh
4. ⌘ + N to start a new terminal instance. If it doesn't work you may need to restart your machine.

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Actually, setting up a new machine is enough of a pain that I'm just going to document everything I'm doing to help my future self. (From me, 12 Jan 2025)

1. Install some warez

• Chrome & Firefox
• 1Password
• kitty
• Sublime Text

2. Rip through every control you got

Things to make sure to customise:

• Date and Time formats
• Language and Region
• Appearance (auto light/dark mode)
• Hide Dock/Taskbar
• Keyboard & Trackpad shortcuts
  • Don't forget three-finger drag

3. The dastardly chore of setting up your dev environment

1. Change default shell to zsh: chsh -s $(which zsh)
2. Clone and unpack my dotfiles (see above)
3. Breathe a sigh of relief from the ugly
4. Generate a new SSH key and then add it to your GitHub account. Remember to test the SSH connection first.
5. Install Homebrew with /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
6. Install GnuPG (pre-req for RVM) with brew install gnupg gnupg2
7. Install RVM, then install the latest stable ruby. You might run into some errors with make. Try forcing the openssl version with rvm install [x.x.x] --with-openssl-dir="$(brew --prefix openssl@3)". If that doesn't work, double check the path of openssl by running which openssl.
8. Become tired and give up until tomorrow

Still on my todos:

• Install Python... in a not weird way, somehow
• Fix the version checking for ruby and python in my login script
• Install All The Other Apps