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I use oh my zsh for exactly one reason: I can get a good shell experience out of the box and immediately start working on stuff productively, whether it's a new machine, a new remote host or a container. I could spend hours figuring out all those things, bit I'd rather use that time for something more important.
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That misses the point. I don’t even want to think about any of that stuff. It’s a single command to install oh-my-zsh. I can fire it off, check Slack, and come back in 5 minutes. If I have to take 5 minutes to setup it up, I’m just not going to do it.
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Hmm, weren't dotfiles invented just for that reason? I'm joking but on a more serious note, installing a shell as a default shell seems more complicated than copying over your .bashrc
more complicated than copying over your .bashrc In case you weren't aware, MacOS uses zsh as the default installed shell. The bash version that comes with MacOS is some ancient 3.x version, from 2005.
I use oh my zsh for exactly one reason: I can get a good shell experience out of the box and immediately start working on stuff productively, whether it's a new machine, a new remote host or a container. I could spend hours figuring out all those things, bit I'd rather use that time for something more important.
You really only have to go through that once and it's a good learning experience.
OMZ has been working steadily for me for the past 8+ years. Autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and a concise prompt--really all I need.
This thread feels so foreign to me. I use basic ass vanilla Windows terminal. It’s fine. I also use the vanilla built-in to VSCode terminal. It is also fine. Terminals are such a small, unimportant part of my job I barely even think about them.
Yes, Windows users don't have time for such luxuries when they're constantly fighting a losing fight with an increasingly hostile OS. Playing whack-a-mole dismissing ads, dismissing Edge and reopening links in your preferred browser, waiting for React to render in the start menu, coping with the ever increasing theft of personal data, and on and on and on the list goes. The rest of the time is spent on working around…
Win11 Pro is also fine. I spend radically less time fighting Windows than I spend fighting Linux userspace disfunction.
> The main problem with Oh My Zsh is that it adds a lot of unnecessary bloat that affects shell startup time. Wowsers! That +0.5 seconds delay will kill cats everywhere. We must microoptimise the startup time of shells!!! Or ... we could simply use bash and KDE konsole with, say, 10 tabs. That setup works for me since ages; admittedly I use bash just as a wrapper for simple actions as well as calling a gazillion of a…
I describe my setup and how to use it on a fresh MacBook here: https://github.com/agrounds/dotfiles
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Hmm, weren't dotfiles invented just for that reason? I'm joking but on a more serious note, installing a shell as a default shell seems more complicated than copying over your .bashrc
more complicated than copying over your .bashrc In case you weren't aware, MacOS uses zsh as the default installed shell. The bash version that comes with MacOS is some ancient 3.x version, from 2005.
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more complicated than copying over your .bashrc In case you weren't aware, MacOS uses zsh as the default installed shell. The bash version that comes with MacOS is some ancient 3.x version, from 2005.
I think you where trying to say something and then stopped just short of actually making your point. Please continue.
Maybe I'm underinformed, but I don't personally know any Linux users who convert to zsh, instead opting for fish or something else (oilsh? nushell?).