🐠 Dotfiles Setup

These are my personal dotfiles, so some user-specific identifiers and paths are likely present. These are just meant for myself to use and inspiration for others.

• WSL — Arch Linux
• Fish Shell
• Git authenticated using the Git Credential Manager in Windows, reused in WSL.

Considerations

I, dangerously, have opinions on the internet.

• Universal variables are confusing, difficult to navigate in the dotfiles space, and are generally falling out of favor.
• Avoid using config.fish as much as possible to keep things modularized.
• Colocate as much as possible in the .cache, .config, and .local directories using XDG. It annoys me greatly when I can't organize the filesystem of my own home directory 🤬. Some programs fight me on this including:
  • dotnet/corefx doesn't respect DOTNET_CLI_HOME^{1, 2}
  • VSCode's WSL extension doesn't support changing the path of the .vscode-server install directory.

Future Plans & Improvements

1. Read more about autoloaded functions instead of aliases.
2. Write the installation section so I remember how to recreate my setup 😅

Reading Material

A small collection of resources for me to look into when I want to learn more about the newest toys.

• Altbox.dev
• Popular git config options, Julia Evans