README.md

My Windows Dotfiles

My personal dotfiles to initialize Windows machine configuration

Technology Stack

My Windows dotfiles are a collection of steps, scripts, and configuration files to initialize a Windows machine. The primary technologies attributed to this project are:

• PowerShell: The primary scripting language used to automate the configuration of the local machine.
• GitHub: The version control system and platform used to store and serve the distribution of the dotfiles.
• Windows: The intended operating system for the development environment.
• WinGet: The package manager used to install software and tools on the destination machine.

Overview

This repository is a partially automated set up of local machine configuration on a Windows device. A few pre-requisite steps are outlined in the below set up guide. The final step is the download and invocation of the Install-Dotfiles.ps1 script. This script will do the following:

• Install Git for Windows
• Format a Dev Drive if one doesn't already exist
• Clone repository to Dev Drive or fetch latest if already exists
• Import WinGet packages
• Install a Nerd Font
• Install PoshGit
• Install PoShFuck
• Install Azure PowerShell
• Set PowerShell Profile
• Set Environment Variables

Instructions

Install PowerShell

1. Install PowerShell via WinGet:

   winget install --exact --id Microsoft.PowerShell.Preview --source winget

2. Open a PowerShell session for further steps.

Install Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka WSL)

1. Install WSL directly via the following command:

   wsl --install

2. Afterwards, you will need to restart the machine before continuing.

Invoke Dotfiles

1. From an administrative PowerShell session, set execution policy to remote signed and invoke dotfiles installation:

   Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope LocalMachine
   Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/victorfrye/dotfiles/main/scripts/Install-Dotfiles.ps1' | Invoke-Expression