hydro VS dotfiles

This was already asked here. There's links in that discussion that may help. I use hydro and I've not noticed any issues. You might have luck trying another prompt and seeing if it's still an issue. Or, if you don't use any of the features of the automatic script injection, you might find the fix is simply changing this setting: "terminal.integrated.shellIntegration.enabled": false.

My prompt basically mimics Fish’s Hydro prompt. The left is a single line that has a truncated $PWD, my git branch, a single symbol for whether my git project dir is ‘dirty’, and a prompt symbol ($ in Bash, % in Zsh, # if I’m root). I use a transient right prompt in Zsh too with command execution times over 10s. Python venvs are the only other thing, but that happens automatically when I activate one. After using this for years, everything else now feels like clutter.

If you are interested in more in-depth profiling of your fish config, this command is helpful fish --profile-startup=$__fish_config_dir/fishprof.txt -c exit. You'll get detailed profile information in fishprof.txt. You will also probably find that starship is one of the slowest parts of your config. Hydro is a nice alternative if you like a full-featured prompt with speed in mind.

https://github.com/jorgebucaran/hydro is pretty minimal

And because it's very instructive, I hand-rolled all the rest as well, resulting in this (set via PROMPT_COMMAND).

and so on, for each config file. My general dotfiles repo is public here, if you want to take a look how I did it for the tools I use: https://github.com/bewuethr/dotfiles

This still isn't ideal. For example, I use Git submodules for Vim plugins in the shared repo – but maybe I don't need all of that on my Raspberry pi. I feel like at some point, a config file based solution could be better; or using a tool such as https://yadm.io/, which is using bare repos under the hood.