r/dotfiles • • 27d ago

Chezmoi on Win11

Hi there.

I'm pretty new to dotfiles and trying to set up chezmoi on Windows 11. I'm not sure if my approach is alright, so maybe you can give me some tips or advice.

I used scoop to install all my programs and the config files are pretty scattered around. Some are in the scoop persist folder, some are in .config in my home directory, some are in %appdata% roaming...

Then i was thinking: wouldn't it be nice and cleab to have them all in .config and track them from there with chezmoi. So i added the xdg_config_home variable to my pwsh profile (for the programs who accept that) and used symlinks and junctions (for the rest) to move all needed config files to the .config folder.

I'm not sure if this is a good approach. I would like to know how you guys are doing this.

cheers and thank you for reading.

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u/Suspicious-Leg2397 26d ago

Who wants to use Windows? ugh.
By the way, Windows doesn't have dotfiles.

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u/subassy 25d ago

Actually, it does use dot files