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What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? (jvns.ca)
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[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Install fish

chsh -s /usr/bin/fish

That's all, folks.

[–] artiman@piefed.social 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I also install starship.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

And maybe a Nerd Font

[–] artiman@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I do use a nerd font also.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought it'd have better git prompt out of the box. I guess I have to try it configure.

[–] artiman@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Default preset or did you try a preset it has different presets on the website.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just installed it as it is out of the box. What do you suggest for improving git prompt?

[–] artiman@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Try out the different presets the git prompts may be better.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought you weren't supposed to use Fish as your login shell directly since it isn't fully POSIX compatible

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why would your login shell need to be fully POSIX compatible?

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

They warn about it on their home page, so I assumed using it could bust your system. My bad.
I think they also had harsher wording about this in the past but I might be misremembering...

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Recently tried it and do like