Lazy is working, but I don't understand why...

[PremiereStoss]

Fairly new to linux and neovim/lazyvim....

I have Lazyvim working but I don't understand where the config files are. For example and explanation, in my init file, I only have 1 item and that is "require("config.lazy")". So, I believe that is some sort of link to /lua/config/lazy.lua. Ok, so I go there and this gives me a little more info on how it is setting up. That's strange but moving on to more confusion, I have no plugins in the plugins directory yet I run lazyvim with quite a few plugins. All installed by Lazyvim. Furthermore, I only have 4 files in the config directory (keymaps.lua, options.lua, lazy.lua, autocmds.lua). Lazy.lua is the only file with some info in it, the other 3 are empty. Hope this all makes sense. I'd appreciate any help in understanding this more.

[dpetka2001]

Lazyvim is installed as a plugin that is managed by lazy.nvim. Thus it will get installed in the stdpath("data") directory and all other plugins that come by default with LazyVim will also get installed there. You can do :echo stdpath("data") to see where that directory resides on your OS. This happens to differentiate the LazyVim plugin configuration with the user configuration. All user configuration will go into ~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/ directory and will get merged with the LazyVim and other plugins' default configuration if the user wants to specify some plugin spec and modify it. If you install a plugin, it will get installed in the stdpath("data") directory along with its default configuration that comes out of the box.

[PremiereStoss]

Thanks @dpetka2001 for the explanation! Slowly but surely it is making more sense.