Dotfiles aka Configuration for zsh and associated tools

Installation (and Prereqs)

WSL Install (Windows Only)

Open up powershell and install wsl with the following command

wsl.exe --install archlinux
wsl.exe --set-default archlinux

.wslconfig (highly recommended)

WSL has a tendency to consume at minimum 8GB of memory or half of your total available memory. This includes your page file which windows tends to double. This means that even when idling, it will, by default, consume all the memory even when your active processes are using considerably less.

In your %UserProfile% directory create a .wslconfig file

The following is a minimum configuration that you can use.

[wsl2]
memory=6GB # How much memory to assign to the WSL2 VM. (too low and you'll oom)
processors=2 # How many processors to assign to the WSL2 VM. (too low and parallel tasks may take longer)
swap=0 # Disable the swap to avoid pushing memory back and forth to the pagefile

# Used to help keep memory management under control
[experimental]
autoMemoryReclaim=gradual

Package configuration

Follow # Arch CFG to configure all the packages assumed on the system or ensure that git and stow are at minimum installed.

Note: I have only tested this with my arch config, so it may not work out of the box otherwise

Installation

Clone the repo via git into $HOME directory and execute stow to create the necessary symlinks.

git clone git@github.com/jacobsky/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
stow .

Arch CFG

Configuring arch should be done via the following commands:

sudo useradd -m [username]
sudo passwd [username]
sudo usermod -aG wheel [username]

Finally, it will be necessary to edit the /etc/sudoers file to allow the wheel members access

Once this is complete, ensure that Yet Another Yogurt (or paru) is installed. Yay can be installed as per the following command

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git && cd yay-bin && makepkg -si

To help track the "generally used arch packages" that I use, I am maintaining both the pacman and yay (AUR) packages as well as any custom installation scripts for specific tools not found on the package managers which can be installed via scripts/install.sh

When new additions are made, they can be automatically managed and added via the scripts/archpacbu.sh script and running it from your home ~ directory.

(manual) tmux package manager

This should be automatically taken care of by the dofiles, but if it hasn't, please install tmux plugin manager to

git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm

use +I to install all the plugins in an active tmux session

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im-select

Check the im-select.nvim to confirm the configuration.