ohmyzsh
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community. (by ohmyzsh)
zimfw
Zim: Modular, customizable, and blazing fast Zsh framework (by zimfw)
ohmyzsh | zimfw | |
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607 | 29 | |
177,033 | 4,060 | |
0.7% | 1.8% | |
9.4 | 7.9 | |
1 day ago | 6 days ago | |
Shell | Shell | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ohmyzsh
Posts with mentions or reviews of ohmyzsh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-23.
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Most engineers have Git aliases; what are yours?
> Most engineers
I don't believe that but I use https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/git
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Bash vs. Zsh: Key differences and when to use each
Oh My Zsh is an open-source Zsh framework used to add extra functionalities for Zsh, turbocharging the entire Zsh user experience. Oh My Zsh’s extra advanced features cause users who frequently use the terminal to gravitate towards Zsh.
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Passo a Passo: Configuração do WSL para DevOps e SRE no Windows
Para saber mais sobre o Oh-My-Zsh, consulte o seguinte link.
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OhMyZsh and Janus: Set Up Productive Work Environment in 10 Minutes or Less
The first tool I always install is OhMyZsh.
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Switching from tmux to Zellij
That's it! Happy CLI mastery with Zellij, Oh My zsh and Alacritty!
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Supercharge Your Mac Terminal: A Step-by-Step Guide to iTerm2, Oh My Zsh & Powerlevel10k
Step 2: Setting Up Oh My ZSH
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The easiest way to set up and configure your AWS CLI
If you are using Oh My ZSH as your shell of choice, you can add plugins=(... aws ) to your .zshrc / profile and besides having autocomplete for the AWS CLI you will also immediately see in the terminal window what is the current AWS profile you are logged in.
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Adding time to bash history
Good news if you use zsh: just type history -i
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TIL: Ghostty — a new and quite promising terminal emulator
I've mentioned above that I've been using robbyrussell (from here) for my iTerm2 terminal setup, so I wondered if the same one is available. I was about to start googling the list of available topics, but I've noticed a hint in the Ghostty doc to run ghostty +list-themes in the terminal, and here is what has happened:
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My Terminal Setup for 2025 🚀
ZSH and Oh My ZSH offer superpowers to your terminal thanks to its customization and wide variety of plugins.
zimfw
Posts with mentions or reviews of zimfw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-07.
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Two Simple Tmux Keybinds that Help Me Everyday
There is more! I use zimfw which is like oh-my-zsh but faster. I discovered that it comes with default aliases. I want to learn those too because Gcm is faster than git commit --message. So I made a quick fzf bind for that too.
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[Question] What are the best plugins for zsh ?
More on topic, I use zim, but mostly write my own plugins/modules/ad-hoc/post-hoc scripts
- Which apps do you install first on any new Mac?
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Current state of plugin managers
I’m using zimfw Flexible and fast. https://zimfw.sh
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Why should I care wether my shell is POSIX compliant?
I was using oh-my-zsh as my plugin manager for a long time and startup speed was probably much slower than fish (although normal usage wasn't) because omz enables a lot of features and plugins I didn't need/use. I went to prezto and then antigen as plugin manager and for the last couple years I have been using zimfw, which is great compromise between a plugin manager that can add and update plugins, and literally just generating a small bootstrap script that just sources the plugins and otherwise is entirely out of the way.
- If you've just installed Arch recently and want to save some time, this zsh config might help you
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What's your preferred shell & why?
zsh with zim framework
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when you forget the sudo on a long command
switch to zsh isntead of bash and use pre prepared framework for it, I like zim zsh
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Long time zinit user looking to trim down my configuration while maintaining easy plugin/binary setup
I moved most of my config over to zim -- been pretty happy for the most part. I see that zinit got forked, which makes me happy, that was a mess and what made me look elsewhere. Hopefully the new committers can do it well.
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What is the best plugin manager in your opinion?
zimfw
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ohmyzsh and zimfw you can also consider the following projects:
oh-my-posh - The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer
zsh4humans - A turnkey configuration for Zsh
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
fzf-tab - Replace zsh's default completion selection menu with fzf!
powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme