I discovered OhMyZsh in May 2019, when I bought my first MacBook with most of my savings – high-school scholarship money, money I'd gotten for birthday. My parents also helped me. It was expensive shit, but it was a also a wonderful machine.
I had always been using Windows before. My only exposure to Unix shells was a bit of Raspberry Pi Zero. As pretty much everyone, I was initially taken aback by terminal.
But I started learning how to make the most out of my new machine.
Problems I have with oh-my-zsh:
too much stuff I don't need (and don't have time to understand)
reproducibility of some bugs
Overall, I think as I get older (and more experienced), I appreciate simplicity even more. Whereas younger me would customize the shit out of every tool he'd used, present me prefers to install as little as possible for comfortable workflow. Instead of instantly changing the defaults, I now try to stop and think.
Shell aliases are cool, but when a tool (like git) has its own aliasing system, I'd just use that.
Farewell, good friend. It's not you, it's me. I changed. I'll always remember you very fondly.
Intro
I discovered OhMyZsh in May 2019, when I bought my first MacBook with most of my savings – high-school scholarship money, money I'd gotten for birthday. My parents also helped me. It was expensive shit, but it was a also a wonderful machine.
I had always been using Windows before. My only exposure to Unix shells was a bit of Raspberry Pi Zero. As pretty much everyone, I was initially taken aback by terminal.
But I started learning how to make the most out of my new machine.
Problems I have with oh-my-zsh:
Overall, I think as I get older (and more experienced), I appreciate simplicity even more. Whereas younger me would customize the shit out of every tool he'd used, present me prefers to install as little as possible for comfortable workflow. Instead of instantly changing the defaults, I now try to stop and think.
Shell aliases are cool, but when a tool (like
git) has its own aliasing system, I'd just use that.Farewell, good friend. It's not you, it's me. I changed. I'll always remember you very fondly.