diff --git a/configs/.zshrc b/configs/.zshrc
index 950ab74..c746378 100644
--- a/configs/.zshrc
+++ b/configs/.zshrc
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ alias timestamp='date -u +%FT%TZ'
 alias yt-dlp-opus="yt-dlp -f 251 -x"
 alias ltcp="cp ~/.dotfiles/latex_template/{macros,preamble,template,letterfonts}.tex ."
 alias jekyll_export="jekyll b -d ./_archive && cd _archive && tar cf ../site.tar ./ && cd .. && gzip -9 -f site.tar && rm -rf _archive"
+alias rebuild="sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake path:/etc/nixos --impure"
 
 # ffmpeg section
 
diff --git a/init_nix b/init_nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02608f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init_nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+if ! command -v git &> /dev/null
+then
+	echo "git should be installed"
+	exit 255
+fi
+
+git clone https://github.com/ivabus/dotfiles $HOME/.dotfiles
+exec sh $HOME/.dotfiles/tools/install_nix.sh < /dev/tty
diff --git a/tools/install_nix.sh b/tools/install_nix.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b017aa4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/install_nix.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+mkdir $HOME/.config
+./relink.sh
+mkdir -p $HOME/.dotfiles/zsh/{plugins,themes}
+ZSH="$HOME/.dotfiles/zsh"
+echo "Installing zsh theme and plugins"
+curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ivabus/ivabus-zsh-theme/master/ivabus.zsh-theme -o $HOME/.dotfiles/zsh/themes/ivabus.zsh-theme
+git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git $HOME/.dotfiles/zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
+curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
+nvim -c :PlugInstall -c :q -c :q