feat: first integration of several changes from wsl dotfiles

.gitignore

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-# Created by https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/macos
-# Edit at https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore?templates=macos
+#######################################################
+# macOS
+# Original template created by https://www.gitignore.io/
+# Edit at https://www.gitignore.io/
+#######################################################
 
 ### macOS ###
 # General
@@ -33,4 +36,28 @@ Temporary Items
 # history
 .history
 
-# End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/macos
+########
+# Linux
+########
+
+# Swap
+[._]*.s[a-v][a-z]
+[._]*.sw[a-p]
+[._]s[a-rt-v][a-z]
+[._]ss[a-gi-z]
+[._]sw[a-p]
+
+# Session
+Session.vim
+
+# Temporary
+.netrwhist
+*~
+
+# Auto-generated tag files
+tags
+
+# Persistent undo
+[._]*.un~/
+
+# End

.vim/after/syntax/markdown.vim

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+syn match markdownIgnore "\v\w_\w"
+set nocursorline

LICENSE-MIT.txt

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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
 Copyright Massamba Sow <[email protected]>
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining

README.md

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 # Device installation scripts for Mac and Windows (WSL)
+## Quickly Get Set Up with These Dotfiles
 
-This repository was inspired by [Mathias Bynens' dotfiles](https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles) repository and adapted from [Zell Liew's](https://github.com/zellwk/dotfiles). 
+This repository was inspired by [Mathias Bynens' dotfiles](https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles) repository and adapted from [Zell Liew's](https://github.com/zellwk/dotfiles) and from [Nick Janetakis's dotfiles](https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles.git). 
 Although I copied many things, I also deleted/updated many things to suit my custom installation. Use this at your own risk!
 
 Here are the installation instructions for Mac and Windows (WSL)
 
 - [Mac instructions](mac.md)
-- [Windows (WSL) instructions](windows.md)
+- [Windows (WSL) and Linux instructions](linux-wsl.md)
 
-Have a suggestion? [Please let me know!](TODO 2 Add link)
+```sh
+# Create your own personal ~/.gitconfig.user file. After copying the file,
+# you should edit it to have your name and email address so git can use it.
+cp ~/dotfiles/.gitconfig.user ~/.gitconfig.user
+```
 
+Optionally confirm that a few things work after closing and re-opening your
+terminal:
+
+```sh
+# Sanity check to see if you can run some of the tools we installed.
+ruby --version
+node --version
+# ansible --version
+# aws --version
+# terraform --version
+
+# Check to make sure git is configured with your name, email and custom settings.
+git config --list
+
+# If you're using Docker Desktop with WSL 2, these should be accessible too.
+docker info
+docker-compose --version
+```
+
+#### Using WSL 1 or WSL 2?
+
+In addition to the Linux side of things, there's a few config files that I have
+in various directories of this dotfiles repo. These have long Windows paths.
+
+It would be expected that you copy those over to your system while replacing
+"Mass" with your Windows user name if you want to use those things, such as my Microsoft Terminal `settings.json` file and others.
+Some of the paths may also contain unique IDs too, so adjust them as needed on your end.
+
+Some of these configs expect that you have certain programs or tools installed
+on Windows.
+
+Pay very close attention to the `c/Users/Mass/.wslconfig` file because it has
+values in there that you will very likely need to change before using it.
+[This commit
+message](https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/commit/d0f1fc2622204b809cf7fcbb1a82d45b451064c4)
+goes into the details.
+
+Also, you should reboot to activate your `/etc/wsl.conf` file (symlinked
+earlier). That will be necessary if you want to access your mounted drives at
+`/c` or `/d` instead of `/mnt/c` or `/mnt/d`.
+
+
+Have a suggestion? [Please let me know!](mailto:[email protected])

c/Users/Mass/.wslconfig

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+[wsl2]
+memory=6GB                  # Make sure you have this amount available to use!
+swapFile=D:\\wsl2-swap.vhdx # I put mine off my SSD, but this is optional.
+
+# Another option is to disable swap but if the VM goes out of memory, the
+# OOM killer might start killing important processes or the VM may crash.
+#
+# Uncomment the line below this to use no swap file at all in the WSL 2 VM.
+#swap=0