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)
zinit
Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages. (by zdharma)
| ohmyzsh | zinit | |
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| 606 | 25 | |
| 176,834 | 2,691 | |
| 0.7% | - | |
| 9.4 | 6.5 | |
| 15 days ago | over 3 years ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| 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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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.
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Can we communally deprecate Git checkout?
I made that exact thought many years ago and came to the direct opposite conclusion. It was worth the cognitive overhead to make the change and I haven't looked back. Most of the time I'm just hitting aliases (from OMZ's git plugin) https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/git e.g.
gsw git switch
zinit
Posts with mentions or reviews of zinit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-29.
- Zinit suddenly missing from Github?
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github repo is missing
I just searched github for the latest fork, and it looks like the most recent fork is https://github.com/ryanstreur/zinit. I went ahead and forked it just in case and I have a version locally that I pulled down at Oct 12 17:12 PST. All zinit forks are showing as being forked from https://github.com/akatrevorjay/zplugin since https://github.com/zdharma/zinit is gone.
- s/bash/zsh/g
- How do I enable this on vscode terminal on macOS
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New to Mac entirely, and somewhat to DevOps. Any suggestions on getting started moving from primarily Windows/Linux? Given a MacBook Pro 2019 16"
I personally prefer zinit to oh my zsh. Lets you use all the oh my zsh plugins without downloading everything (I think that's how it still works?), lets you manage outside plugins in the same way, and is really fast to boot.
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How do you lazyload or delay loading plugins? Improving zsh and other questions (Or maybe my config is broken)
zinit has a turbo mode to load plugins asynchronously
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Zsh Plugin managers
https://github.com/zdharma/zinit/pull/492 Documentation enhanced.
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Anyone interested in ZINIT documentation?
In particular, I am curious about your opinion on part document structure.
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Can zsh look give you suggestions by looking at manpages?
Usage sample (using zinit) GENCOMPL_FPATH=$HOME/.cache/zsh-completion-generator if [ ! -d "$GENCOMPL_FPATH" ]; then mkdir -p $GENCOMPL_FPATH fi fpath=($GENCOMPL_FPATH $fpath) zstyle :plugin:zsh-completion-generator programs fzf zinit wait'3' lucid for RobSis/zsh-completion-generator
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https://np.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/mhrerr/can_zsh_look_give_you_suggestions_by_looking_at/gt0kzbs/
Usage sample (using zinit)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ohmyzsh and zinit you can also consider the following projects:
oh-my-posh - The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
zplug - :hibiscus: A next-generation plugin manager for zsh
powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme