diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 70ea41ad0..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "common/.local/share/zsh/zinit/zinit.git"]
-	path = common/.local/share/zsh/zinit/zinit.git
-	url = https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit/
diff --git a/common/.config/zsh/config/plugins.zsh b/common/.config/zsh/config/plugins.zsh
index 862428bfe..496624298 100644
--- a/common/.config/zsh/config/plugins.zsh
+++ b/common/.config/zsh/config/plugins.zsh
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ ZINIT[SNIPPETS_DIR]=$ZINIT[HOME_DIR]/snippets
 ZINIT[ZCOMPDUMP_PATH]=$ZINIT[HOME_DIR]/zcompdump
 ZINIT[PLUGINS_DIR]=$ZINIT[HOME_DIR]/plugins
 
+[ ! -d "${ZINIT[BIN_DIR]}" ] && mkdir -p "$(dirname "${ZINIT[BIN_DIR]}")"
+[ ! -d "${ZINIT[BIN_DIR]}/.git" ] && git clone https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit.git "${ZINIT[BIN_DIR]}"
 source "${ZINIT[BIN_DIR]}/zinit.zsh"
 
 function turbo() {
diff --git a/common/.local/share/zsh/zinit/zinit.git b/common/.local/share/zsh/zinit/zinit.git
deleted file mode 160000
index c34694964..000000000
--- a/common/.local/share/zsh/zinit/zinit.git
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit c3469496455ea8b8ba184426c558e54817825bef