Sure, there are edge cases I hit because I have some older machines, but for the most part, it’s awesome. I’m up and running on new Macs within a coffee break of getting terminal access.
I’ll probably use something dumber for the next machine, and keep nix for servers and local vms.
Where were your pain points?
P.S. I don’t use home manager though as I also need to bootstrap systems without nix.
[1] <https://github.com/Frizlab/frizlabs-conf> [2] <https://github.com/wincent/wincent>
brew bundle dump
Anyway, my $0.02 is that doing fully automated installs on Macs is a fast track to having weird Finder and settings bugs (if not worse), so I mostly just install packages and very seldom (if ever) apply settings via the CLI -- I've had Apple break things across too many OS releases to find that a worthwhile long-term strategy, and most of the time I'd rather just use Migration Assistant (across Macs with equivalent OS versions) or configure settings manually for a new OS release.
Edit: just went and updated the above script to support brew/cask installs on macOS. Settings can go into the runcmd section.
It's a really nice overview for (almost) all of the options.
I have a file that sets my MacOS Defaults: https://github.com/joeyagreco/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos
And a file to remap some keys: https://github.com/joeyagreco/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos_key_...
And apply the remaps: https://github.com/joeyagreco/dotfiles/blob/b5b819c9bcde2e3a...
bombcar•9mo ago
Storage is too cheap for me to spend time optimizing it anymore. I’m sure I have cruft somewhere, but it doesn’t bother me.
cmpit•9mo ago
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ojhughes•9mo ago
but will it revert back if things go wrong?
bombcar•9mo ago
I never trade in my old computer, even if I'm going to sell or get rid of it (donate) I keep it around for a month or so to make sure everything's working.
timothevs•9mo ago
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