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Fish shell with starship. You will never look back.
I miss simple things like alias when I temporary want to assign long commands to a shorter alias.
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>it seems like ZSH tries to update on every shell spawn Learn your tools first, not bloated frameworks. There's a gulf of difference between vanilla zsh and this: >Community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration >Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc) >140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that…
Sorry, I meant oh-my-zsh. I know that the core shell doesn't update. I still think it's bad. You shouldn't rely on a million different package managers, just 1 is enough. (2 if you are feeling spicy: Flatpak)
So half the users are using OMZ with a bloated slow config and the other half are reinventing new config managers every year because of how terrible OMZ has become. And constantly churning through them as they keep getting abandoned.
I've been happily using zsh4humans for years but will need to find a replacement at some point as it's now going unmaintained too.
I moved to fish 3 years ago, haven't noticed a difference till date.
With articles like these popping up all the time, oh-my-zsh is seriously harming zsh's reputation. It's giving the wrong impression of zsh being slow and bloated. zsh doesn't need configuration frameworks or plugins. All it needs is a change in the default settings so that its powerful completion works out the box. It currently needs more than ideal amount of tweaks to the defaults, which is probably why people flock…
As a long time Linux + bash user I switched to zsh three months ago when I was forced to use a Mac at a new job. In every previous job I was able to insist on Linux, but this one is very corporate. I decided not to fight it, except to install AltTab, Karabiner, Rectangle and a script that detects which screen my mouse is on so I can alt-tab through ALL the stuff on that screen (sane XFCE / KDE behaviour). I can't get…
With articles like these popping up all the time, oh-my-zsh is seriously harming zsh's reputation. It's giving the wrong impression of zsh being slow and bloated. zsh doesn't need configuration frameworks or plugins. All it needs is a change in the default settings so that its powerful completion works out the box. It currently needs more than ideal amount of tweaks to the defaults, which is probably why people flock…
I don't want to spend ages figuring out which knobs to turn to get a half decent shell. If there's an alternative to oh-my-zsh that looks halfway decent, has that nice fzf integrated, and the 'ghost text' history suggestions, then I welcome it!
With articles like these popping up all the time, oh-my-zsh is seriously harming zsh's reputation. It's giving the wrong impression of zsh being slow and bloated. zsh doesn't need configuration frameworks or plugins. All it needs is a change in the default settings so that its powerful completion works out the box. It currently needs more than ideal amount of tweaks to the defaults, which is probably why people flock…
I don't want to spend ages figuring out which knobs to turn to get a half decent shell. If there's an alternative to oh-my-zsh that looks halfway decent, has that nice fzf integrated, and the 'ghost text' history suggestions, then I welcome it!
I think auto suggestions and syntax highlighting plugins can be installed separately from oh-my-zsh.
I use starship for a better prompt, and it works on more shells than just Zsh.
I also have Atuin installed to share history across machines, and as a benefit the history search is a lot more powerful.
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
With articles like these popping up all the time, oh-my-zsh is seriously harming zsh's reputation. It's giving the wrong impression of zsh being slow and bloated. zsh doesn't need configuration frameworks or plugins. All it needs is a change in the default settings so that its powerful completion works out the box. It currently needs more than ideal amount of tweaks to the defaults, which is probably why people flock…
I don't want to spend ages figuring out which knobs to turn to get a half decent shell. If there's an alternative to oh-my-zsh that looks halfway decent, has that nice fzf integrated, and the 'ghost text' history suggestions, then I welcome it!
I wonder why ghost text history suggestions are popular though, I'd rather not have it. Shell history search works better, and I don't want my shell always showing me or whoever else is looking at the screen random commands that I've previously typed.