Shell-bling-ubuntu Alternatives

shell-bling-ubuntu reviews and mentions

• Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2025

  I've got a whole list of tools you might want to consider checking out over at [1]. The scripts themselves are Ubuntu specific, but the binaries are ones I've all found very helpful over the years.

  In particular I'd call out `gron` (make JSON greppable) and `lnav` (Datadog-level log filtering but for local machines and files) as very helpful for dev work.

  [1]: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu?tab=read...

• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2025

  * my somewhat popular Ubuntu dev machine bootstrapping scripts @ https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu , or

• Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of Cursor for Vim?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2025

  I usually hear Avante mentioned in these discussions, which someone has already mentioned.

  Back when I wrote https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu LazyVim seemed to provide the simplest out of the box experience for getting Copilot up, but I'm not sure if it has continued going down that path.. It's been a minute since I've used it in anger. Maybe Lazy has already added Avante and I'm just not aware of it?

• Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2024

  Agreed. This is exactly why I built Shell Bling Ubuntu https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu , and test it every 6 months or so against a fresh install of Ubuntu in a VM - I don't want to have to remember all the little trivia I have to use to get all of my little command line tools, neovim setup, etc. working together harmoniously. The best part is I can hand it off to my colleagues and blow their minds with just how nice a terminal experience can be, "out of the box", kinda.

• We need more zero config tools
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2024

  Zero config tools are quite excellent. I include quite a few of them in https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu , although I also include high-config stuff in there at well so people can compare and contrast - you've got `hx` right next to a fully decked-out `nvim`, for example.

• The Modern CLI Renaissance
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2024

  You could be the first! Fork Ubuntu, leave everything else the same, but have it run `fish` as the default shell with `bash` as a fallback.

  Alternatively, you could install default Ubuntu and run https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu to switch your terminal to fish, kitty, and get a whole slew of other niceties in there by default. I found myself doing this a lot at my last job in VMs, which is why I have this set of shell scripts lying around and easy to audit.

• Shell Bling Ubuntu: Turn a new Ubuntu box into a developer's workhorse
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jun 2024
• Ask HN: I want to learn to use the terminal, where do I start
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Apr 2024

  Personally, I only really got into working at the shell once I started exploring all of the wonderful new programs that people have been writing to make it easy as pie to work with. I ended up collecting them all together into scripts I can `curl | bash` on any new Ubuntu machine: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu

  Obviously these scripts won't work on Mac. But I do list the programs I install in it right in the README, including what I consider the "Holy Trinity": `rg` (really fast line searching), `fd` (really fast file finding), and `fzf` (best described with examples: see https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf). These all work on my wife's Mac identically to how they work on my own Linux box, and they make the experience of working at a shell much more pleasant.

  Finally, install fish! https://mmazzarolo.com/blog/2023-11-16-my-fish-shell-setup-o... You can get back to Bash once you've gotten used to using the shell and find a reason to. Fish is much more pleasant, IMO, and I try to use it wherever I can these days.

• Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2024

  Yes! This is why I pair the two up in https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu.

  These context clues are especially important for newcomers to the command line. A CLI newbie who sticks with it might eventually progress to the point where they decide to ditch Starship, or to ditch fish, or to ditch both, but until they get to that point, the solid defaults and OOTB features of these two have a lot going for them.

• Show HN: Inshellisense – IDE style shell autocomplete
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Nov 2023

  Alternatively, if you simply wish to occasionally bring Copilot into your shell, you should know that Ctrl+X Ctrl+E (on bash) / Alt+E (on fish) will open your current shell line up in $EDITOR, which you may set to Vim or Neovim.

  From there, :wq will drop the text back into your command line. If you have Copilot set up in either of those, then it will also work here.

  I know from working on https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu that Neovim's LazyVim setup now supports Copilot out of the box now. I never had much trouble setting up the Vim plugin either. YMMV.

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