return {
  {
    "LazyVim/LazyVim",
    version = false,
    opts = {
      colorscheme = "catppuccin",
    },
  },
  {
    "folke/noice.nvim",
    opts = {
      presets = {
        command_palette = false,
      },
    },
  },
  -- add emoji completion
  {
    "hrsh7th/nvim-cmp",
    dependencies = { "hrsh7th/cmp-emoji" },
    ---@param opts cmp.ConfigSchema
    opts = function(_, opts)
      local cmp = require("cmp")
      opts.sources = cmp.config.sources(vim.list_extend(opts.sources, { { name = "emoji" } }))
    end,
  },

  -- add telescope-fzf-native
  -- do I need this tho? maybe the native is faster?
  {
    "telescope.nvim",
    dependencies = {
      "nvim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim",
      build = "make",
      config = function()
        require("telescope").load_extension("fzf")
      end,
    },
  },
  {
    "williamboman/mason.nvim",
    opts = {
      ensure_installed = {
        "stylua",
        "shellcheck",
        "shfmt",
        "ruff",
        "lua-language-server",
      },
    },
  },
}