WhereZenZoo

"WhereZenZoo('味儿真足'）- your Windows 11 dev environment, seasoned just right. PowerShell meets dotfiles swagger, no more clicking 'Next' like a peasant. 100% less mouse and 100% more 良子 energy."

WhereZenZoo is a small, winget-based Windows 11 bootstrapper for a lean git + Neovim/LazyVim workflow. No bloat: it installs only what LazyVim needs, symlinks your Neovim config, and sets up a starship prompt.

Prerequisites

• Developer Mode enabled — required so symlinks are created without admin. This applies to both PowerShell editions: PowerShell 7 honors Developer Mode directly, and under Windows PowerShell 5.1 the setup delegates symlink creation to pwsh. Without it (and without an elevated shell) the symlink step fails. Turn it on at Settings → System → For developers → Developer Mode.
• winget (App Installer) — ships with Windows 11; otherwise install "App Installer" from the Microsoft Store.

Shell compatibility

The scripts run under both Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7 — launch the one-liner from either. PowerShell 7 (pwsh) is installed as one of the packages, and on the 5.1 path it is what actually creates the symlinks: Windows PowerShell 5.1's own New-Item -SymbolicLink ignores Developer Mode (it needs admin), so setup routes symlink creation through pwsh.

Quick start

Open Windows PowerShell and run the one-liner:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/user3301/WhereZenZoo/main/install.ps1 | iex

It will:

1. Ensure winget and Git are available (installing Git via winget if missing).
2. Clone this repo (with the dotfiles submodule) to ~\dotfiles.
3. Run bootstrap.ps1 → setup.ps1.

Uninstall

One-liner to revert the setup:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/user3301/WhereZenZoo/main/uninstall.ps1 | iex

This removes the symlinks (restoring any .bak backups) and uninstalls only the packages this setup installed. Tools you already had are left alone. Add -Purge (when run from a clone) to also delete LazyVim runtime data and the ~\dotfiles clone:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File ~\dotfiles\uninstall.ps1 -Purge

What gets installed

Everything is declared in config/packages.json (standard winget export schema):

Package	winget id	Why
Git	Git.Git	version control + LazyVim
PowerShell 7	Microsoft.PowerShell	daily shell (pwsh)
Neovim	Neovim.Neovim	the editor
fd	sharkdp.fd	LazyVim file finding
ripgrep	BurntSushi.ripgrep.MSVC	LazyVim grep
lazygit	JesseDuffield.lazygit	git TUI in Neovim
GNU Make	ezwinports.make	task runner (this repo's Makefile)
starship	Starship.Starship	shell prompt
GitHub CLI	GitHub.cli	gh for PRs/issues from the terminal
GitHub Copilot CLI	GitHub.Copilot	copilot for AI-powered coding assistance in the terminal
MSVC Build Tools	Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.BuildTools	C/C++ toolchain nvim-treesitter (main branch) needs to build parsers

Your Neovim config comes from the dotfiles submodule (submodules/dotfiles/nvim/.config/nvim) and is symlinked to %LOCALAPPDATA%\nvim. The minimal PowerShell profile (powershell/profile.ps1) is symlinked into both the PowerShell 7 and Windows PowerShell $PROFILE locations, so starship + aliases load whichever shell you use. The git identity/config (submodules/dotfiles/git/.config/git) is symlinked to %USERPROFILE%\.config\git, so user.name, user.email, and other git settings are identical on every machine this setup runs on.

Idempotency & safety

• Re-runnable. Run the setup as often as you like — installed packages and correct symlinks are skipped, so nothing is done twice.
• Picks up changes. Add a package id to config/packages.json and re-run; only the new one is installed.
• Never overwrites your tools. A package already present (on PATH or known to winget) is skipped. Uninstall only removes packages recorded as installed by this setup.
• Existing configs are preserved. An existing %LOCALAPPDATA%\nvim, $PROFILE, or %USERPROFILE%\.config\git is moved to *.bak before the symlink is created, and restored on uninstall.

Common commands (after bootstrap installs make)

make setup       # install packages + create symlinks
make packages    # install winget packages only
make symlinks    # create Neovim + profile symlinks only
make check       # validate .ps1 and .json files parse
make uninstall   # revert setup (symlinks + packages we installed)

make is installed by the first bootstrap, so use the install one-liner on a fresh machine before reaching for make.

Manual install

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/user3301/WhereZenZoo.git $env:USERPROFILE\dotfiles
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File $env:USERPROFILE\dotfiles\bootstrap.ps1

Notes

• The bootstrap runs under Windows PowerShell 5.1 (so it works before PowerShell 7 is installed); PowerShell 7 is then installed as a package and the profile is linked for both shells.
• winget shims live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links; the scripts refresh the current session PATH after installs, but open a fresh terminal to pick up all changes.