dots

Personal dotfiles managed with chezmoi.

Targets Ubuntu / WSL2 on the Linux side, Windows 10/11 on the desktop side.

What's inside

• Shell — bash with starship prompt
• Editor — Zed (Windows) + vim (terminal fallback)
• Terminal — Alacritty on Windows, tmux in WSL
• Git — templated config with folder-based identity overrides (work vs personal)
• Tools — go, rust, node via rustup / nvm / manual install
• Windows apps — winget-driven app list in windows/

Bootstrap a new Linux / WSL machine

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git curl
sh -c "$(curl -fsLS get.chezmoi.io)" -- init --apply matzxrr

Chezmoi will:

1. Clone this repo to ~/.local/share/chezmoi
2. Prompt for machine type (personal, work-blade, work-laptop) and GPG keys
3. Run the bootstrap script (rustup, nvm, go)
4. Run the install-packages script (apt / cargo / go / claude)
5. Apply config files

Total time ~15 min on a fresh machine.

Bootstrap a new Windows machine

From Windows PowerShell:

git clone git@github.com:matzxrr/dots.git $env:USERPROFILE\dots
cd $env:USERPROFILE\dots\windows
.\install.ps1

If PowerShell blocks the script, run once:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

Daily workflow

Command	What it does
chezmoi edit <file>	Edit a managed file (opens in source dir)
chezmoi diff	Preview what would change on apply
chezmoi apply	Apply changes from source to home
chezmoi add <file>	Start managing a new file
chezmoi update	Pull latest + apply
chezmoi cd	Open a shell in the source dir
chezmoi git -- <args>	Run git commands in the source dir

Machine data

Each machine stores its per-machine data at ~/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.toml:

[data]
  machine = "personal"             # or work-blade / work-laptop
  gpg_key = "AA1C7ADD08D44AE0"    # personal signing key (same everywhere)
  is_work = false
  work_gpg_key = ""                # set on work machines

Structure

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├── dot_bashrc                      → ~/.bashrc
├── dot_bash_profile                → ~/.bash_profile
├── dot_tmux.conf                   → ~/.tmux.conf (compat stub)
├── dot_gitconfig.tmpl              → ~/.gitconfig (templated)
├── dot_config/
│   ├── alacritty/                  → ~/.config/alacritty/
│   ├── gitconfig/work.tmpl         → ~/.config/gitconfig/work (work identity)
│   ├── lazygit/
│   ├── starship.toml
│   ├── tmux/
│   └── zed/settings.json
├── .chezmoiscripts/
│   ├── run_once_before_10-bootstrap.sh           # rustup, nvm, go
│   └── run_onchange_before_20-install-packages.sh # apt, cargo, go, claude
├── windows/
│   ├── apps.txt                    # winget package IDs
│   ├── install.ps1                 # winget bulk installer
│   └── README.md
├── .chezmoi.toml.tmpl              # init prompts (machine type, GPG keys)
└── .chezmoiignore                  # patterns to skip

Git identity

The base .gitconfig uses personal identity (matzxrr) as default. Work identity is overridden automatically for repos cloned under ~/work/ via includeIf "gitdir:~/work/". No manual switching needed — just put work repos in ~/work/ and personal/side-project repos anywhere else.

Philosophy

Minimal tinkering. Tools should get out of the way and work. LSPs and language-specific configuration are handled by Zed's extension system rather than installed globally.