jasonhilder / dotfiles-windows

Dotfiles for windows 11

Dotfiles Windows :)

Setup Steps

Install windows

1. Update windows
2. Activate Windows
3. Debloat Windows

Set execution policy

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

Install Scoop

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://get.scoop.sh | Invoke-Expression

scoop should be the first place to get applications, if not available do the normal route.

Configure git

git config --global user.name "user name"

git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"

Then setup ssh keys etc etc...

Get the repo

cd ~

git clone [e-mail]:jasonhilder/dotfiles-windows.git dotfiles

Copy config files and profile settings

cd ~\dotfiles

.\setup.ps1

Install scoop apps

Scoop makes life easy and linux like, setting up paths etc as well as exporting all installed apps as json for an easy import

scoop import .\scoop_apps.json

(Optional) Install Vim plug for vim setup

iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim |`
    ni $HOME/vimfiles/autoload/plug.vim -Force

Remember to run :PlugInstall on first run

Software installed without scoop

Generally software that has auto updates like browsers, or software that doesn't work as expected with my setup and scoop.

Firefox

Steam

SDL I had to make a work around I have a local_libs folder in my home directory where these are linked for local dev, each of the following sdl2 libs have been downloaded as the mingw varient to work with my toolchain:

• SDL2
• SDL2_image
• SDL2_mixer
• SDL2_ttf
• SDL2_net