i've probably spent a collective 8 hours of my life trying to get powerline working on the command prompt of my work vm. i have not succeeded, because of the problems

one time i had to ssh into a coworker's machine for something and they had powerline set up. i was about to ask them how they did it when i realized: they were using zsh, not bash

i'm... not ready to take that leap

@monorail I don't recall noticing any difficulty switching from bash to zsh, but I also never was a power user and I only did it to use the excellent grml zshrc

@noiob it just feels like i'm inviting problems into my life to do that to my work machine. i can't explain it i just feel like something will go wrong in eight months

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@monorail 🤷 my work machine came with zsh (macos changed the standard shell)

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