My DotFiles for Linux/macOS

This is my personalized Linux/WSL2 dotfiles. Configurations include predefined aliases, functions, vim settings, scripts for the installation of various CLI utilities and software.

Currently using macOS M4

Contents

• Installation
• macOS Setup with Homebrew
• Aliases and functions
• ZSH
• VIM
• VSCode

Installation

1. Clone repo git clone https://github.com/victory-sokolov/dotfiles
2. Installation of environment is defined in Makefile, execute make to see available commands. Check make install command which will set-up base development environment and soft link dotfiles like aliases, function and etc.

macOS Setup with Homebrew

For macOS users, you can quickly install all command-line tools and GUI applications using the provided Homebrew files.

Prerequisites

Install Homebrew if you haven't already:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Installation

Install all command-line tools and GUI applications using the provided Homebrew files.

   cd macos
   brew bundle --file Brewfile
   brew bundle --file Caskfile

SSH Commit Signing

Git commits are signed using SSH keys. After setup, add your SSH public key to GitHub as a Signing Key:

1. Go to https://github.com/settings/ssh/new
2. Paste your public key: cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
3. Select Signing Key as the key type
4. Click "Add SSH key"

What gets installed

Brewfile includes:

• Development tools (Git, Node.js, Go, Rust, Python, etc.)
• Terminal utilities (fzf, ripgrep, bat, lsd, etc.)
• DevOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)
• System monitoring tools
• AI/CLI tools

Caskfile includes:

• Development applications (VS Code, Warp, Claude Code)
• Browsers (Chrome, Firefox)
• Design tools (Figma)
• Productivity apps (Raycast, Obsidian, Spotify)
• Programming fonts (Fira Code, Hack Nerd Font, etc.)

Aliases and functions

You can list all available custom aliases and functions via the following commands:

• aliases - lalias
• functions - fhelp

ZSH

List of ZSH plugins I use

• git - Git aliases
• extract - extracts all types of archives
• sudo - press ESC twice to prepend command with sudo
• npm - npm aliases
• react-native ReactNative aliases
• web-search - aliases for searching with Google, Wiki, Bing, YouTube
• you-should-use - reminds you to use defined aliases
• zsh-autosuggestions - suggests commands as you type
• zsh-completions - zsh autocomplete
• z - tracks your most visited directories and allows you to access them with few keystrokes
• kubectl Kubernetes aliases
• encode64 base64 encode/decoder
• docker docker autocompletion

VIM

NeoVim + NerdTree

Plugins

VS Code

I'm using the default VS code Theme as well I like Cobalt2 theme

List of Extensions that I use

Try out with Docker

Inside dotfiles directory run: docker build . -t dotfiles --rm Run: docker run -it dotfiles