Dotfiles, managed with Ansible & GNU Stow

What

At work, I use MacOS primarily, but the tools listed below I use both at work and at home.

At home, I use Arch Linux.

Main Tools

• Code Editor: Neovim, with JetBrains tooling for large refactors/debugging/anything Neovim struggles with.
• Shell: Fish
• Terminal: Ghostty on macOS/Linux
• Git Porcelain: LazyGit

Other Software

Other software that I use as a developer on a regular basis:

• A few Rust utilities
  • Bat
  • Delta
  • Lsd
  • Ripgrep
  • Zellij as a terminal multi-plexer / Tmux alternative
• Good ol' pen and paper for note-taking
  • Plain markdown for longer-term notes or scratch documents

Arch Linux

Currently using Hyprland, a tiling window manager.

Included in this repo is configuration for Hypr and various related tools, since using a Tiling WM often means configuring a lot of your own desktop features that you generally take for granted.

I use nwg-look to customize GTK apps and hyprqt6engine to customize QT themes.

Game Development

For game development projects, I tend to stick to Godot. I use VS Code to edit GDScript, just because the built-in editor is pretty basic, and I couldn't get Neovim to work with Godot reasonably well.

For C#, I use JetBrains Rider.

Structure

• config/ houses my dotfiles, which are symlinked with Stow
• cosmic-theme/ contains COSMIC desktop environment themes
• dotfile_role/ is an Ansible role containing:
  • tasks/ - Ansible tasks for bootstrapping
  • vars/ - variable definitions (e.g., packages to install)
  • defaults/ - default variable values
• karabiner/ contains Karabiner-Elements configuration for macOS key remapping

Usage

Run the bootstrap script for the appropriate operating system, then run ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass setup.yml

The bootstrap script for Mac just installs Homebrew and Ansible, whereas the Arch one just installs Ansible and configures yay for the AUR.