Do you find the Windows dev environment lacking? Do you miss your precious CLI tools on Windows?
Well I felt the same way too. That's why I combined a package manager, a powerful CLI editor, tiling window management and lots of other tools in a easy to set up solution.
Winfiles is a set of handcrafted configs for setting up a complete dev environment on Windows.
It makes developing on Windows much more pleasant for CLI lovers.
✨ Features
Can set up a complete dev environment within minutes
Full featured CLI dev environment on Windows (natively, without WSL!)
Powerful personalized editing with nvim2k
Shiny and extensible prompt with oh-my-posh and Posh2K
Modern and intuitive keybindings for Windows Terminal inspired by tmux-tilit
Tiling window management with komorebi and AutoHotKey
Statusbar support with yasb
More!!
Setup
⚡ Requirements
Powershell >= 7 (recommended), Most features should work on Powershell 1.0
scoop — for package management
Meslo Nerd Font — Recommended font for glyphs support
🚀 Installation
# Install scoop
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser # Optional: Needed to run a remote script the first time
irm get.scoop.sh | iex
# Install git if you haven't already
scoop install git
git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/Winfiles
cd Winfiles
.\setup.ps1
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This will install all necessary packages, modules and setup symlinks for you.
💻 Usage
Tiling
Tiling is disabled by default as AutoHotKey keybindings are somewhat buggy.
But if you want to use Tiling Window Manager without keybindings:
Run StartTiling/StopTiling on a Powershell prompt to control tiling.
I recommend using PowerTools to add some keybindings, for example:
Win + q for closing current window
Status Bar
You can use yasb to show a status bar, similar to polybar.yasb to set up.
My yasb configs are here
Extra Fonts
If you want to try out other fonts, you can also use oh-my-posh to install fonts
Just run oh-my-posh font install and select the font of your choice.
More Tools
I have intentionally kept the default list of packages to bare essentials.
If you want any other tools you can install them with scoop or winget.
# Install VS Code
scoop install code
# Install winget
scoop install winget
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You can also search for packages using scoop search name.
Other Configs
For most tools I'm symlinking configs over from my main Dotfiles .
You can do the same or plugin your own.
Behind The Code
🌈 Inspiration
I find working on Windows somewhat unpleasant, WSL although tries and fixes it, but it felt constrained.
That's why I decided to set up a dev environment using native windows tooling.
💡 Challenges/Learnings
The main challenge was to figure out all the pieces of this puzzle and solving it.
Learned a lot about Powershell and did quite some scripting with it.
Learned more about the Windows ecosystem, different environment variables, configs etc.
Had lots of fun!
🧰 Tooling
Dotfiles — Dev Environment
nvim2k — Personalized Editor
Powershell
Windows Terminal
Repo
Ultimate Dev Setup for Windows 🪟🪄
win2k is a set of handcrafted configs for setting up a complete dev environment on Windows.
It makes developing on Windows much more pleasant for CLI lovers.
✨ Features
Can set up a complete dev environment within minutes
Full featured CLI dev environment on Windows (natively, without WSL!)
Shiny and extensible prompt with oh-my-posh and posh2k
Powerful personalized editing with nvim2k
Tiling window management with komorebi and whkd
Modern and intuitive keybindings for Windows inspired by tmux-tilit
Statusbar support with yasb
More!!
Setup
🚀 Installation
Enable remote script execution (Only needed one time)
Set-ExecutionPolicy - ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned - Scope CurrentUser
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Invoke-RestMethod - Uri https:// get.scoop.sh | Invoke-Expression
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Install git (7zip and aria2 to help with scoop installations) if you haven't already
scoop install aria2 7zip git
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git clone -- recurse- submodules https:// github.com …
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