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i've had to set up 9 laptops/vms over the past 3 years (4 in the past 5 months as of april 2026, don't ask why), and i'm tired. this is my attempt to semi-automate that and make myself less irritable.

note nushell 0.111 has a bug where nu setup.nu -h shows duplicated subcommands. fixed in 0.112.1, but not on brew yet as of me writing this

another note: i haven't tested this as much on wsl or other linux flavors so feel free to open an issue or a PR

to get started...

get nushell first

windows: winget install Nushell.Nushell

macos / wsl: install homebrew, then brew install nushell

run the setup script

nu setup.nu                      # run everything
nu setup.nu packages             # install tools
nu setup.nu init                 # generate starship/zoxide init files
nu setup.nu files                # copy configs to the right place
nu setup.nu post-install         # gh auth, fnm lts, default shell, wallpaper
nu setup.nu status               # see what's installed

add --dry-run to preview without doing anything.

what gets installed

everything lives in config.toml — edit it to swap in your own. mine are pretty basic right now and i'll probably keep adding to it.

• everywhere — git, nushell, starship, uv, gh, fnm, fzf, fd, zoxide, ripgrep, etc.
• unix — tmux, htop, neovim
• macos — aerospace, ghostty
• windows — terminal, powertoys, autohotkey
• personal (add --personal flag) — zotero, sioyek, etc., the stuff you wouldn't want on a work laptop

what gets copied

anything you put in the [files] section of config.toml gets copied to the right place per platform. i have all my configs under files/ so everything there that matters get copied over

after setup

restart your terminal and set nushell as default: chsh -s (which nu) on unix, or set it in windows terminal settings.