Automated macOS workstation set up

Features

• Install Nix, nix-darwin, home-manager and Homebrew
• Install CLI and GUI apps
• Change system settings
• Install my dotfiles

Usage

• Change the hostname and username in ./flake.nix and ./home/*.nix
• Go to Settings -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Full Disk Access and allow the Terminal app

git clone https://github.com/khuedoan/macos-setup macos-setup
cd macos-setup
make

Then reboot.

Testing

1. Install UTM
2. Download macOS IPSW recovery file
3. Create a macOS VM in UTM using the downloaded IPSW file
4. Run xcode-select --install in the new VM
5. (Optional) Clone the VM to a new one for easy rollback (UTM doesn't support snapshot yet)
6. Run the above commands

Acknowledgements

• Setup nix, nix-darwin and home-manager from scratch on an M1 Macbook Pro