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Make Your Linux Terminal Enjoyable to Use

Daffa Haj Tsaqif on December 30, 2023

At some point, we as Linux users or even Mac need to use a terminal at some point, whether to install something or do a software engineer task, or ...
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Nathan G Bornstein • Edited

Oh My Zsh is the de facto for a lot folks these days, but I think the creators have been radio silent on any updates/PR's and aren't actively maintaining it. My fav framework for Zsh is Zim. Super fast, modular and the themes it comes with are p cool (sorin is my current theme).

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif

I don't know I still got an update today and the commits are still active if I see it.

but I will take a look at Zim anyway, thx.

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Nathan G Bornstein

You're absolutely right. I just looked it up and it's community maintained rather than the person who created it. I needed to do more research when I saw "the owner isn't maintaining it anymore" and not make assumptions 😅

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif • Edited

once project is big enough one man cant even handle it alone i guess, Robby Russell the creator also has his own company so it's hard to keep an active hand there, but he still oversee it from my quick github search

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Prayson Wilfred Daniel

How did you add GitHub markdown? It is super cool 😎

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif

the github gist? there's a documentation to make one {% gist <LINK> %}

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Ben Sinclair

The font-size is too small. Did you use any special markdown around it or just the embed code? Otherwise we should put a bug report in!

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif

I just embed the github I found, it's not even mine to be honest I think I've typed the owner

And no, no special markdown I'm not that smart

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Prayson Wilfred Daniel

Nice 👍 Thank you. Do you have the link to documentation?

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif

Idk about links, but the guide is in the right side "create post" page, pretty sure you can see there

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Duy

No one talks to Warp terminal? It's so good.

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif

Warp is mac only at the moment so i cant speak anything about it but when i saw "pricing" and if what they said is true about needing an account and internet access, I dont know

i will check around in youtube i guess

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MightyCoderX

I actually enjoy using just bash. I'm on a fresh, minimal installation so I don't wanna install too much stuff, and once customixed a bit it can be nice too!

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif

minimalist sometimes always better to some people, if you dont want it nor need it dont use it, simple right? :)

no need to be "oh its trendy i need to use/try it" nah nah

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koisose

keren tapi masih setia sama fish

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif

selama suka gak usah ganti gak papa

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Paul Valladares

amazing post, thanks for sharing 😁

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Xem0n

what about tmux?

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif

Tmux is very good especially if you use it on server but I haven't used it for my own use yet so I can't write something I don't know

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Ian

I know I'm probably a weirdo but I actually quite enjoy using Bash.

I can see the value in other shells, but I'm a sucker for tradition.

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif

If you enjoy it keep using it, no need for FOMO

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Denis

fzf

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif

oh yeah i forgot to add that, but maybe i'll make a list special for "tools"

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Bruce Hankins

Have you tried fish and oh-my-fish? Or fish and powerline? I feel like zsh is over hyped, I know some people think fish is a useless shell, but it fits perfectly for me.

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif • Edited

I tried Fish, when I used it first time on my Pop OS installation back when I explore Linux for the first time, but the script is quite different compared to bash/zsh that's why i don't use it.

Also i have too many automation scripts that makes it pain to migrate anyway

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