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+# Dotfiles
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+My dotfiles are here. There's an install script for debian for all the required packages, and then a second script to link all the files from this repo to the actual local locations on your machine, so you don't have to do any of that yourself.
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+This has config files for 13, 13status, vscodium, and qt5ct.