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I tried switching to zsh, but I felt like out of the box it's almost the same as bash. I don't want to spend a lot of time configuring my shell, I want it to get out of my way and let me type commands.

I use fish shell mostly these days. Magic autocompletion is life-changing.




I use “oh my zsh” with zsh for this reason. Installing that is as much overhead as installing zsh as a package.

https://ohmyz.sh/


Whether you use bash, zsh, or most any other shell, back up your configuration files. On almost any internet-connected system, I'm three steps away from my setup:

1. Install prereqs with package manager (curl, git, zsh, vim)

2. Download and install oh-my-zsh

3. Pull .zshrc, .vimrc, etc. from Github

4. (optional) Add workarounds because Windows Terminal still can't handle color and cursor position codes.




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