Plexus Bootstrap Script

With this script, you can take a fresh macOS or Debian machine straight to dev-ready:

1. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plexus-ms/bootstrap/HEAD/bootstrap > ./bootstrap
2. # Edit ./bootstrap as needed
3. chmod +x ./bootstrap && ./bootstrap

Supported Platforms

• macOS 26+ (Apple Silicon only)
• Debian 13+

The Stack

• ZSH: Installs zsh and makes it the default shell (Debian only, macOS already comes with zsh).
• Homebrew: Installs brew (macOS only, Debian already comes with apt).
• Development packages: Installs some packages needed for development.
• Personal apps: Installs your personal apps (macOS Brewfile + Debian apt.txt, fetched from your repo).
• Chezmoi: Installs the chezmoi binary and applies your dotfiles repo in one shot.