Forked from justmiles/bootstrapping-winblows, if not already apparent. Bootstrap your Windows desktop like a boss.

1. Launch Powershell as an admin to run the admin_*.ps1 files in the powershell_scripts directory. These scripts:

   • install the majority of end-user desktop software
   • remove some bloatware
   • install WSL

2. Launch Powershell as a normal user to run the remaining uininstall_bloatware.ps1 script. This script:

   • Removes the majority of anti-features Windows provides

3. Let's start on the NixOS install. Download this pre-built NixOS installation and import it into a WSL distirbution called "NixOS"

   [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
   (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL/releases/download/2311.5.3/nixos-wsl.tar.gz", "$HOME\Downloads\nixos-wsl.tar.gz")
   
   # Import NixOS
   wsl --import NixOS "$HOME\NixOS" "$HOME\Downloads\nixos-wsl.tar.gz" --version 2
   
   # Create a "workspaces" folder to persist your working documents outside of WSL
   wsl -d NixOS /run/current-system/sw/bin/mkdir -p "/mnt/c/Users/$env:USERNAME/Documents/workspaces"
   wsl -d NixOS /run/current-system/sw/bin/ln -s "/mnt/c/Users/$env:USERNAME/Documents/workspaces" "/home/nixos/workspaces"
   
   # Launch NixOS
   wsl --distribution NixOS

4. From inside of WSL, update channels

   sudo nix-channel --update

5. Clone this repo

   cd ~/workspaces
   nix-shell -p git
   git clone https://github.com/justmiles/bootstrapping-winblows.git
   cd bootstrapping-winblows

6. Update wsl/flake.nix to set your username

   grep "username =" wsl/flake.nix
   vi wsl/flake.nix

7. Rebuild using the latest

   sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ./wsl

8. Use the wsl -d NixOS to launch the shell or open http://localhost:3000 for an integrated development environment

9. Fork this repo and start making changes to build out your own environment.

   • check out https://search.nixos.org for packages and flakes