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by jordanpg 4238 days ago
I went to look at some of the amazing zsh plugins, and found this endorsement flashing in front of me: "I just can't imagine not using oh-my-zsh. I can believe I won't have to mess around with .bashrc again."

And then I wondered: what on earth are you doing in the command line if you don't want to "mess around with .bashrc"?

I guess the point is to turn the CLI into a mouse-less GUI?

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Or the fact that it asks you to install iTerm. My favorite thing about Terminal.app is that it's already there, just a spotlite command away, and you can theme it as well.
I personally think that is a moot point because there's usually a whole bunch of things that I need to install on a Mac, or any system for that matter, before I can actually be productive on it. At work we have a few shell scripts that we run through which will install homebrew, various software, and finally I grab my dotfiles. A full setup usually only takes an hour or two.