willchicanoski/dotfiles

Dotfiles for my Windows environments

Rodolpho Alves' dotFiles

Those are my personal settings for my Windows' environments.

If you want to use this consider forking it and changing it to your fit your own needs, don't go around blindly running scripts from the internet!

What are dotfiles

In a nutshell:

Basically this is an old-school way to OneDrive/Google Sync/Dropbox your settings. At least those that are easy to automate.

A dotfiles repository is an attempt to keep multiple settings in-sync across multiple environments without relying on external solutions. Basically once you have this repository done all you gotta do is git clone it into a new environment and run the bootstrap script.

The biggest challenge for this set of dotfiles is to deal with the Windows' way of setting stuff up. Thus why you'll notice some powershell wizardry going on. Things like what I'm trying to achieve here are way easier on nix environments.

But the challenge of doing this on Windows is exactly what fuels me 😎

If you're interested in the subject you might want to check out some articles such as:

1. https://dotfiles.github.io/
2. https://medium.com/@webprolific/getting-started-with-dotfiles-43c3602fd789

How to use this?

First and foremost:

Do not use this if you have no idea what these scripts are doing. Never run scripts blindly, especially those found on the internet.

Windows

If you're on Windows:

1. Download this repository or Clone it with git
2. Run the bootstrap.ps1 file
3. Answer the ultra-secret totally not related to WoW question 🐔
4. ???
5. Profit 💲💲💲

This will set you up with some VSCode settings, Windows Terminal and Powershell settings.

If you're not me (lol) you might want to change your ~/.gitconfig so you won't commit stuff using my name.

Expanding on the Profile

If you need more stuff on your profile but doesn't want to track it you can expand upon the current Profile by creating an extras.ps1 file on the same directory your Profile's on.

Usually this means you'll create an extras.ps1 file on ${HOME}\Documents\PowerShell\.

Installing stuff

The bootstrap script doesn't install anything for you. If you're interested in install stuff you'll need to run the following scripts:

1. install_softwares.ps1: Sets you up with a bunch of softwares based on the contents of software_list.txt
2. powershell/setup/install_pwsh_modules.ps1: Sets you up with a bunch of Powershell Modules

Linux (WSL)

Run bootstrap.sh and you'll have the usual files (git and bashrc) sys-linked and ready to rock.

Directory structure

This is the directory structure I'll be keeping for my dotfiles:

Directory	What goes into it
.	Everything that goes to ~
./bash	Bash profiles and Snippets
./powershell	Powershell Profiles and Snippets
./terminal	Everything Windows Terminal
./vscode	VisualStudio Code goodies

Environment variables

Those are some environment variables that are used throughout my scripts/profiles:

Name	What it affects
PWSH_SKIP_ENV_CHECK	if this is set to anything the $PROFILE will skip checking the Environment's Setup
PWSH_SKIP_AUTOCOMPLETE	If this is set we won't setup Autocompletion for Powershell on $PROFILE
PROJ_DIR	This should point to a directory where you keep most of your source codes
DOTFILES_DIR	This should point to where you keep this repository's files