Short answer: use Nix + direnv (nix-direnv) + flakes.
Result: when you cd into a project, your shell auto-loads the exact tools for that repo; when you delete the folder, its env stops existing and the packages get garbage-collected. No more “uhh which package manager did I use for this?”
Here’s the playbook—fast, opinionated, and minimal chaos.
| # ~/.config/starship.toml | |
| # ————— Prompt-wide settings ————— | |
| add_newline = true | |
| format = """$directory $git_branch$git_status$python$rust$c$nodejs$java$docker_context | |
| $character""" | |
| # ————— directory module ————— | |
| [directory] | |
| style = "blue bold" |
| // Overide the schmes key in json inside settings/Ubuntu/Appearence-> Click on JSON | |
| // SideNote: Preferreble backgrounds you could use instead of 121212 are -> 1e222a, 0B1215(fav), 352f36, 101720 | |
| // Checkout -> https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/font-colors-to-use-instead-of-pure-black-000000-a53944d4e3eb | |
| // https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/33e6n5/unconventional_terminal_color_schemes/ | |
| // https://sudoscience.blog/2023/02/28/my-top-3-linux-color-schemes/ | |
| Theme 1: | |
| "schemes": | |
| [ | |
| { |
| Programming Setup | |
| tmux | |
| nvim | |
| fzf | |
| Photo & Vid Recovery: Software Name: R-Photo: https://www.r-tt.com/ | |
| Mouse:- | |
| System Mouse pointer Speed=10, | |
| DPI=1600 |