Reading this brought out the grumpy old man in me. It seems like a perfect example of someone not being able to say no to new features.
It’s a bunch of settings for a shell, ok, simple enough. But it’s hard to install, so make an automated installer. But doing work in a monochrome terminal is so boring, let’s vomit colors everywhere. Can’t just color things without any rhyme or reason, so let’s add themes. But now people aren’t getting themes quick enough, so I’ll NAG THE USER EVERY WEEK whether they want to check for updates. Nevermind if things are working fine for you, you could be missing out on new stuff you didn’t even know you needed! Update! People hate it, but fuck those people! Oh you didn’t know you just updated even though you were just interrupted during whatever you were trying to do when you opened that terminal? How about some giant ascii art on your new terminal. Oh and don’t forget to follow me on twitter, I want some credit for this! Hey did you buy a t-shirt and coffee mug to let everyone know how slow your shell runs with all of that garbage loaded into it? No need to get work done, just sip your coffee out of your new mug while you wait for new plugins to install into your shell so you can get emojis and animated dicks or whatever.
After using oh my zsh for a few months i switched over to https://grml.org/zsh/ which is less modular but focused on sane defaults. Haven’t looked back.
Reading this brought out the grumpy old man in me. It seems like a perfect example of someone not being able to say no to new features.
It’s a bunch of settings for a shell, ok, simple enough. But it’s hard to install, so make an automated installer. But doing work in a monochrome terminal is so boring, let’s vomit colors everywhere. Can’t just color things without any rhyme or reason, so let’s add themes. But now people aren’t getting themes quick enough, so I’ll NAG THE USER EVERY WEEK whether they want to check for updates. Nevermind if things are working fine for you, you could be missing out on new stuff you didn’t even know you needed! Update! People hate it, but fuck those people! Oh you didn’t know you just updated even though you were just interrupted during whatever you were trying to do when you opened that terminal? How about some giant ascii art on your new terminal. Oh and don’t forget to follow me on twitter, I want some credit for this! Hey did you buy a t-shirt and coffee mug to let everyone know how slow your shell runs with all of that garbage loaded into it? No need to get work done, just sip your coffee out of your new mug while you wait for new plugins to install into your shell so you can get emojis and animated dicks or whatever.
It’s a poor layman that fetishizes his tools.
I had oh-my-zsh installed for about a week. Absolutely can’t stand anything that makes my terminal slower to start up.
I know there are other alternatives (Prezto), but I prefer the DIY approach advocated by Zach Holman.
After using oh my zsh for a few months i switched over to https://grml.org/zsh/ which is less modular but focused on sane defaults. Haven’t looked back.
Still an interesting read though!