My Windows, Debian (WSL2) Setup

Hi there,

thought as first post I write a small intro how I setup my
work environment fast and efficient, a computer should be IMHO very exchangeable, so it crashes, you buy a new, follow some steps sync your files from your cloud and continue working. Love WSL2, looking forward to try the Android Subsystem for Windows .. I still have some Proxmox server running. This just a part of my setup running terminator on wsl in X on Windows too, will update the repo over time.

Uploaded it to github files are there to download, Enjoy

https://github.com/wjk22/dotfiles-public

Windows

1. Setup two users user/admin admin password protected, work only as normal user.

2. Install Chocolatey - Windows App Installer and some basic apps
   
   choco install totalcommander powershell-core ditto imageglass everything git googlechrome firefox openvpn potplayer processhacker gsudo vscode vim wox wlc python3

3. Install Total Commander Ultima Prime from https://www.tcup.pl/index.php/en/, buy a license from https://www.ghisler.com/ (
   This is imho the best file commander ever invented, please prove me wrong..)

4. Install Netlimiter and buy a license - https://www.netlimiter.com/

5. Install Windows Terminal or Windows Terminal Preview. Work as user, elevate with gsudo.

6. Download and install these Fonts and set them as defaul in Windows Terminal

   • MesloLGS NF Regular.ttf
   • MesloLGS NF Bold.ttf
   • MesloLGS NF Italic.ttf
   • MesloLGS NF Bold Italic.ttf

7. Install Oh My Posh - Prompt Engine

8. Install Terminal Icons - Folder and File Icons

9. Install scoop a command line user installer
   Invoke-Expression (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://get.scoop.sh')
scoop install curl

10. Install z for Windows Powershell
    Install-Module -Name z

11. Install WSL -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

12. Install Debian from the Microsoft Store ..and change WSL to Version II

13. Install Seafile if you use a seafile server, highly recommended, choco install seafile-client, I keep all
    my data in my own cloud encyrpted and on a backup drive.

14. Install Macrium Reflect Free and backup your data every week at least ..

Linux (Debian in WSL2)

// I am old school I prefer zsh over fish ..

1. Install zsh, tmux, htop, vim, mtr-tiny, curl, iptraf,git, tcpdump, mc // I use Debian so apt install ....

2. Install Oh my ZSH,ZSH-Autosuggestion, enable plugins
   

.sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

1. Install P10K from https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
   git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k
   

2. z for zsh - Z Directory jumper for ZSH

3. Setup my tmux, I use old screen bindings Ctrl-a

4. Install vscode from https://code.visualstudio.com/download

5. Install NodeJS
   sudo curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_17.x | sudo bash -

6. sudo apt install sl ;)

Copy my template config files to the correct directories ..

Mac

hehe stopped using a mac two years ago :P

Stuff to try

eal opens aliases in vim and rereads aliases

Windows

Alt-space opens wox

Linux

Crlt-r in zsh searches in your history

Stuff to try

eal opens aliases in vim and rereads aliases

Windows

Alt-space opens wox

Linux

Crlt-r in zsh searches in your history

Links

Inspired to publish my version by Craftzdog
https://github.com/craftzdog/dotfiles-public#readme

... follow the white rabbit, no there is no spoon and may the force be with you ..

Wojciech Kalka [email protected]