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 Source: [https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles]
 
+# Required tools
+## Alacritty
+Download from here: [https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/releases]
+```sh
+dpkg -i Alacri*
+```
+## bspwm
+## sxhkd
+## zsh
+TODO needs some font
+to permamently switch shell to zsh:
+```sh
+chsh -s $(which zsh)
+```
+link configs to XDG_CONFIG_HOME
+```sh
+ln -s /home/marc/.config/zsh/.zshenv /home/marc/.zshenv
+ln -s /home/marc/.config/zsh/.zshrc /home/marc/.zshrc
+```
+
 # Initialization
 ```sh
 git init --bare $HOME/dotfiles