Alex's Dotfiles

Before you re-install

First, go through the checklist below to make sure you didn't forget anything before you wipe your hard drive.

Did you commit and push any changes/branches to your git repositories?
Did you remember to save all important documents from non-iCloud directories?
Did you save all of your work from apps which aren't synced through iCloud?
Did you remember to export important data from your local database?
Did you update mackup to the latest version and ran mackup backup?

Installing macOS cleanly

After going to our checklist above and making sure you backed everything up, we're going to cleanly install macOS with the latest release. Follow this article to cleanly install the latest macOS version.

Setting up your Mac

If you did all of the above you may now follow these install instructions to setup a new Mac.

For macOS:

xcode-select --install
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexanderswerdlow/dotfiles/master/install.sh)"

For Ubuntu:

wget --no-check-certificate --no-cache --no-cookies -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexanderswerdlow/dotfiles/master/install.sh | sh

After mackup is synced with your cloud storage, restore preferences by running mackup restore
Restart your computer to finalize the process

Your Mac is now ready to use!

Note: you can use a different location than ~/.dotfiles if you want. Just make sure you also update the reference in the .zshrc file.

Non-automated Setup (Dangerous!!!)

The commands below disable important macOS security features and should not be taken lightly. They will make it much easier for malware to break things and/or be more invasive. I decide to disable these features both for convinience (i.e. macOS doesn't need to verify the signature of every program, make it diffcult to open some programs etc.) and because I've run into several programs (specifically for development) that require SIP to be disabled anyway.

I've taken these commands from here

Disable GateKeeper: sudo spctl --master-disable
Disable Library Validation: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.libraryvalidation.plist DisableLibraryValidation -bool true

The following commands must be executed from recovery mode:

Disable SIP: csrutil disable
Disable Apple Mobile File Integrity: nvram boot-args="amfi_get_out_of_my_way=1"

If you want to disable any Apple programs from bypassing the Network Extensions API, see here

Safe but unfortunately manual config

iMessage -> Edit -> Substitutions -> Disable Emoji Replacement
Sublime Text Configs
PopClip
Install custom chrome extensions: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Create chrome profiles (cchrome)

More Info

Installs iTerm2, oh-my-zsh, and the Powerlevel10k theme

Additional Programs

Wolfram Desktop
PDF Expert
Texpad
Forklift
Numi
Alfred
WiFi Explorer Pro
Wireguard
Matlab

Thanks To...

Initially this was based off of Dries's Dotfiles but it's since been completely re-written.

mihirp1998/dotfiles