return {
  {
    "goolord/alpha-nvim",
    event = "VimEnter",
    optional = true,
    opts = function()
      local dashboard = require("alpha.themes.dashboard")
      local logo = [[
                                              
       ███████████           █████      ██
      ███████████             █████ 
      ████████████████ ███████████ ███   ███████
     ████████████████ ████████████ █████ ██████████████
    ██████████████    █████████████ █████ █████ ████ █████
  ██████████████████████████████████ █████ █████ ████ █████
 ██████  ███ █████████████████ ████ █████ █████ ████ ██████
              ]]
      --             local logo = [[
      --            ▄ ▄
      --        ▄   ▄▄▄     ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄
      --        █ ▄ █▄█ ▄▄▄ █ █▄█ █ █
      --     ▄▄ █▄█▄▄▄█ █▄█▄█▄▄█▄▄█ █
      -- ▄ █▄▄█ ▄ ▄▄ ▄█ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
      -- █▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ █ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ █ ▄
      -- ▄ █ █▄█ █▄█ █ █ █▄█ █ █▄█ ▄▄▄ █ █
      -- █▄█ ▄ █▄▄█▄▄█ █ ▄▄█ █ ▄ █ █▄█▄█ █
      --     █▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█ █▄█▄▄▄█
      --             ]]

      dashboard.section.header.val = vim.split(logo, "\n")
  -- stylua: ignore
  dashboard.section.buttons.val = {
    dashboard.button("f", " " .. " Find file",       "<cmd> Telescope find_files <cr>"),
    dashboard.button("n", " " .. " New file",        "<cmd> ene <BAR> startinsert <cr>"),
    dashboard.button("r", " " .. " Recent files",    "<cmd> Telescope oldfiles <cr>"),
    dashboard.button("p", " " .. " Projects", "<cmd>Telescope projects <CR>"),
    dashboard.button("g", " " .. " Find text",       "<cmd> Telescope live_grep <cr>"),
    dashboard.button("c", " " .. " Config",          "<cmd> lua require('lazyvim.util').telescope.config_files()() <cr>"),
    dashboard.button("d", "󰉦 " .. " Dotfiles",          "<cmd>FloatermNew --disposable --name=dots --opener=edit --titleposition=center --height=0.85 --width=0.85 dots<CR>"),
    dashboard.button("s", " " .. " Restore Session", [[<cmd> lua require("persistence").load() <cr>]]),
    dashboard.button("e", " " .. " Lazy Extras",     "<cmd> LazyExtras <cr>"),
    dashboard.button("l", "󰒲 " .. " Lazy",            "<cmd> Lazy <cr>"),
    dashboard.button("q", " " .. " Quit",            "<cmd> qa <cr>"),
  }
      for _, button in ipairs(dashboard.section.buttons.val) do
        button.opts.hl = "AlphaButtons"
        button.opts.hl_shortcut = "AlphaShortcut"
      end
      dashboard.section.header.opts.hl = "AlphaHeader"
      dashboard.section.buttons.opts.hl = "AlphaButtons"
      dashboard.section.footer.opts.hl = "AlphaFooter"
      dashboard.opts.layout[1].val = 8
      return dashboard
    end,
  },
}