Starship: Cross-Shell Prompt
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Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! Shows the information you need, while staying sleek and minimal. Quick installation available for Bash, Fish, ZSH, Ion, Tcsh, Elvish, Nu, Xonsh, Cmd, and Powershell.

Starship is a really nice, fast, customisable shell prompt - of which there are many - but Starship supports a very wide range of things out-of-the-box.

Including docker context’s. It detects Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml/yaml in the directory, and if you’re not on the default context then it’ll show the name of the context you’re on in blue alongside a little whale icon. A tiny but very useful feature.

  • vampatoriOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I used to do game dev as a hobby, but as you say Windows is just head-and-shoulders ahead of Linux for that - not just for the engine support, but all the essential tools that go along with it too.

    Starship does work with Powershell - but I don’t have any other recommendations for Windows. I currently only use Windows for gaming, I use Linux for development and general use.

    Dual boot for sanity! SSD’s prices are falling of a cliff right now.

    • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I actually do have dual boot on almost every computer I use now that I think about it, but I’m quite frankly too lazy for switching OSes and setting everything up twice :/ I usually have troubles with procrastination even when I don’t have to reboot a computer to start working, so dualboot has proven to be infeasible solution for that :D Even having to boot into a VM for something can make me postpone doing it, but fortunately ever since I discovered multipass it’s not such a problem anymore :D

      Another issue is with our company being heavily into O365, with most of ways how to use alternative clients being disabled. For example, I was not able to get Teams and Outlook working on Fedora, since they dropped support for clients last time I checked, and you’re left with a pretty annoying web app. Then there’s also the fact that we’re using Checkpoint for VPN, which I also didn’t manage to get working on Linux. :/

      It’s a shame, though. I work part time as a pentester, and having to work from Windows host OS is so annoying, I’d switch to Linux anytime, if it weren’t for the aforementioned problems.