Zsh

This page is the front door to my dotfiles. It is written for one reader first: me, the next time I am sitting in front of a machine that does not know me yet. If you are someone else, welcome — take whatever is useful. Everything I care about in a terminal is in that repo: zsh with Powerlevel10k, tmux on a Ctrl+a prefix, Neovim through LazyVim, Ghostty in Catppuccin Mocha, lazygit, a git config that signs every commit, and the settings for the AI agents I work with every day, including a Claude Code status line that gets the bill right. None of it is copied into place. It is linked, so the repo stays the only copy, and a change on one machine is a git pull away from every other. ...

Zsh + Oh My Zsh turns a plain terminal into a fast, autocompleting, good-looking shell. This is the guide I keep coming back to — freshly revised for 2026, covering both Linux and macOS, with the plugins and fonts that actually make a difference. Revised (July 2026): rewritten with separate Linux/macOS tracks, current install commands, Nerd Fonts, and the two plugins I install on every machine. Jump to your platform: 🐧 Linux (Ubuntu / Debian) 🍎 macOS ⚙️ Configure & make it yours — themes, plugins, fonts (same on both) 🐧 Linux — Ubuntu / Debian Tested on Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04 (and Debian 11/12). Everything here is apt-based. ...