Oh My Zsh

I have for as long as I can remember been using ZSH as shell for my Linux installations. I haven't found anything that I like more till this date. I have never come across a Linux or BSD distribution where Oh My Zsh didn't work.

Prerequisites

git
zsh
curl or wget, my example is with curl, as that's my preferred

You can install the dependencies with you package manager

sudo pacman -S git zsh curl # arch based distros
sudo apt install git zsh curl # debian based distros

** Set you default shell**

chsh -s /bin/zsh

You might how to logout and back in to have changes take effect. Something restarting the shell is enough.

** Install Oh My Zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Follow the instructions from script.

Now you are ready to take benefits of Oh My Zsh.

Additional setup

I have some additional steps that I take. I have two plugins for Oh My Zsh that I really love. One being Zsh-z and the other zsh-autosuggestions

Zsh-Z makes navigating between directories an ease. Zsh-autosuggestions make command suggestions based on you shell history, it same quite some keystrokes for me.

They are luckily quite easy to install simply use git.

git clone https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-z
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

You would now need to edit your ~/.zshrc find the plugins section and add the to plugins

plugins=( 
    # other plugins...
    zsh-z
    zsh-autosuggestions
)

Starship.rs

Lastly I really love the look and feel of the Starship.rs-prompt which will shine up your shell a bit.

To install it

curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh

follow the instructions on screen.

Now add the following to your `~/.zshrc'

eval "$(starship init zsh)"

You can fetch my starship.rs configuration here https://github.com/tomasnorre/dotfiles/ especially the two files

Now you have a easy to setup and easier to use Linux shell.

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