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List of scripts I use to setup a brand new Linux machine (Debian/Ubuntu based).

Heavily inspired by @theprimeagen's Developer Productivity v2 course.

Layout

• scripts/ — base installers (apt packages, editors, terminals, docker, etc.). Run first.
• after/ — things that depend on scripts/ (asdf plugins, aws cli, fonts, dotfiles, browsers). Run after.
• languages/ — asdf language installers (node, python, ruby). Not invoked by run; execute manually once asdf is installed.
• run — orchestrator that iterates over scripts/ then after/.

Usage

Run everything:

./run

Parameters

The run script accepts two optional arguments, in any order:

Arg	Effect
--dry	Dry run. Prints what would execute, prefixed with [DRY_RUN]:. No changes made.
<filter>	Any other positional arg is treated as a filter. Only scripts whose path contains this substring are executed; the rest are skipped.

Only one filter is honored — the last non---dry arg wins.

Examples

# Preview the full run without executing anything
./run --dry

# Run only the docker script (from scripts/ and after/ combined)
./run docker

# Preview what running just the neovim setup would do
./run --dry neovim

# Run only the 'after' hooks matching 'fonts'
./run fonts

Languages

Run language installers manually after asdf is set up:

./languages/node
./languages/python
./languages/ruby