thanks for this post, would you mind doing an update on your gpg post? I'd love to learn how to get gpg+yubikey working in WSL in windows 11, seems fairly tough to do currently.
this command broke my Power Shell. Now it crashes at startup.... IDK how to uninstall it without being able to launch the PS!!! "Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -RequiredVersion 2.2.0-beta2"
@@ahmadsum1 I ran afoul with this as well at the 43 minute mark with the whole 'PSReadline' bits. (Terminal broke and I could no longer execute any commands in Terminal to try and fix the issue.) I got back to 'normal' by executing the following - as an *ADMINISTRATOR* in a *CMD* prompt - instead of Terminal -> > > pwsh.exe -noprofile -command "Install-Module PSReadLine -Force -SkipPublisherCheck -AllowPrerelease"
00:00:10 -- START 00:00:36 -- Windows PowerShell opens... 00:01:41 -- 🤔 00:01:59 -- Get ZoomIt (whatever the latest version is!!!) 00:02:32 -- PowerShell shows all terminals installed or set up 00:02:35 -- 00:02:53 -- Open JSON file [always use VScode] 00:06:47 -- install wsl 00:07:15 -- ubuntu installed ?? 00:13:05 -- fonts 00:15:18 -- Installing oh my posh for windows. By the way I used this command "winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget" as it was suggested by the website 00:15:45 -- NOTE: However, after the installation by typing "oh-my-posh.exe" at my windows terminal, all I get just a unix-like man page for "oh-my-posh.exe". 00:23:05 -- ??
I think the best parts of this video were the parts that you made mistakes and showed us your thought process. I personally think this kind of teaching style is more useful and actually more time saving! And please don't say sorry for being a perfect teacher. 💙
Completely agree I feel luike you learn from the mistakes you think through yourself and with others and over time taking that approach makes you more valuable than someone who can only follow a prompt or "escalate"
Thank you so much Scott for saying the Ubuntu correctly and respecting our language. As a South African I think you are a genius. Thank you. People don't even want to know what that name is from.
How do I thank you in a better way. You know what, you actually "taught me fishing instead of giving a fish" and I'm extremely happy for the fact that I learnt how to think when I end up with a bunch of errors. I really thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing this kind of video.
I love that I'm not the only who gets stressed out by icons on the desktop! I try to minimize them as much as possible. I didn't know you could hide them and show them like that!
You're not alone. Desktop icons are the worst imo. Keeping stuff on your desktop just gives you an excuse to keep your files disorganized. And the only other mildly useful things on there are app shortcuts which are made entirely obsolete by the search feature.
Were some bugs in PSReadLine 2.2.0-beta1, so instead of going (@42:06) Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -RequiredVersion 2.2.0-beta1 -AllowPrerelease Just get the latest beta instead (by leaving out the version number): Install-Module PSReadLine -AllowPrerelease -Force Or if you already tried beta1 and now it doesn't work 1. stop ALL instances of pwsh (check task manager) 2. from cmd.exe (or bash on Linux) run: pwsh -noprofile -command "Install-Module PSReadLine -AllowPrerelease -Force"
Honestly the most productive couple of hours I have spent in a while, thanks to the well paced, no assumption, approach I have a much better Windows 11 setup. Thanks Scott !
I appreciate that you mentioned the correct pronunciation of the word "Ubuntu" - I'm a Xhosa speaking South African and have always had a problem with "Ubhantu" pronunciation of the word.
Oh sweet! Thank you so much Scott. I'm Zulu and this is for the first time hearing someone, particularly an American pronouncing correctly and knowing the true meaning of "Ubuntu" Linux. Ubuntu means humanity.
at 25:16...searching for a file with 'dir /s'...while I prefer to stay in terminals all day, when I search for files, I use 'Everything' (void tools...first hit if you use bing...dunno for the other search engines). I don't use it for much other then "where is a file", but it's awesome for that purpose.
I basically never comment on TH-cam since the beginning. But this time...I must. I am a long time mac and linux user. I'm also into coding and learning etichal hacking. I still use my macbook pro late 2013 and I just ordered my first windows pc in 30 years yesterday. Of course I tried windows 11 recently and I was impressed. I also was impressed by WLS. The first thing I looked for is how to set up a proper linux bash shell environment in windows and I found out your tutorial. After watching it I'm impressed and I subscribed immediately. You also demonstrate I basically don't need vms anymore. I am a long time oh my zsh user but I love oh my posh now after watching this. Thank you very much sir!
Just started on my web developer journey today and had my WSL Linux environment all decked out and ready for life in my coding BootCamp thanks to your other videos. Watched this from start to end and now have all that PSReadline completion goodness working too. Thanks for sharing and making a web developer newcomer's life that little bit easier :)
Amazing Video-Tutorial!! Thank you for that! Quick tip for Google for not showing the right results in 37:55. Using the minus symbol actually tells the engine NOT to include results with the specific keywork. So there are no results with the word "PredictionViewStyle". Adding quotes around it tells the engine to look exactly for what's in the quotes and it does not parse it!
Scott, excellent video. I think this style of teaching is an amazing way to teach people, and to teach them to find solutions to the problems they may face. I would enjoy seeing more of these! Thank you.
... or c:/Users//OneDrive/Documents/Powershell if you use default backup tool in Windows which is OneDrive. It would be great if not one major flaw: it doesn't allow removing nested folders from syncing to keep them only locally, because if you do it will do the opposite: erase these folders locally and keep them in the cloud and that is just insane and dangerous!
So as always thanks for the patience to learn us about Posh and command prompt to Make Up our screen. One of the best Posh explanation. Keep going with your good job.
Absolutely appreciate videos like this, and no need to apologize about the length ... since it's a recording we can skip around or play at 2x speed if we want to skip sections we're less interested in. But so many good learning moments in here.
Het Scott you didnt go over the terminal error at 30:05 . My terminal in vscode is not recognizing oh-my-posh.exe, it says "oh-my-posh.exe: The term 'oh-my-posh.exe' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again."
He really says that it's not going to be exciting 22:25 but you know the more I watch this it's just making me more and more interested to using windows sometime I really new to customized stuffs ❤ thank you. Love from india 🇮🇳
Dear Scott, I was introduced to your channel just recently. I appreciate the slow but thorough pace of your content. I believe I prefer getting a more comprehensive answer to my problem than a faster one. Your series on “Computer Stuff They Didn’t Teach You” has been a wonderful resource to fill out some gaps in my knowledge as well as a great resource to look for additional answers to new questions. Keep up your good work! And keep going slow.
Thank you so much for this video, I keep hearing things about downloading nerdfonts and editing windows terminal but seeing an actual human do these things is so much better
And kudos for consistent use of the zoom-in so the text on screen is readable even on a phone in portrait. A lot of otherwise good content from other TH-camrs is less effective. Thank you.
Great video Scott, thank you. I did run into a few differences, not unexpected since it's been 9 months since you posted. One thing that took quite a bit of sleuthing to figure out, though, was that at the 35:00 minute mark in the video, I couldn't get Import-Module to find the installed Terminal-Icons module (installed as shown in the video). It was installed under ~\Documents\PowerShell\Modules, and Import-Module couldn't find it there. For whatever reason, $Env:PSModulePath did not contain that path. I added the ~\Documents\PowerShell\Modules directory to $Env:PSModulePath, and after that the Import-Module statement worked. This is on Windows 10 20H2 w/ PowerShell 7.2.5.
Thanks a lot, the details were necessary. I've learnt a lot. I did mine just pasting codes without knowing what the code does. Watching this can help me replicate this without the aid of any video guide.
Thanks for a good time. The good thing about watching uncut howtos like this is you always learn something, no matter how much you think you know (thanks for ZoomIt and the Powershell hotkeys!) - and you learn to know the person better as well. My hat is off to you sir! :) Cheers!
The best thing about your videos Scott is that you assume your audience has zero knowledge on the topic which is what every good teacher in the worlds does.
he's pretty fast doing his stuff to assume we know nothing, may be that I'm pretty dumb because I do not understand him, in my opinion he explains horrible.
Great Video! Honestly I was also hoping to find a script in the description when I first clicked on the link. But I respect the fact that you wanted to do it slowly and actually teach how to do it. For everyone who doesn't want to watch the whole video I can say: It's well worth it!
As a developer, you spend everyday in your shell. Making it place you want to be and be productive is huge. Honestly, I had been staying in git bash in windows simply for getting the path and git metadata. Now I don't have to do that and I can get basically make it look and feel how ever I like. Great Video Scott!
I learned many windows incantations that I didn't know before from this. It was nice that you called out the keys when you would do something interesting. Also its nice to see you make mistakes and correct them on the fly. I'm sure this will come in handy for me and many others when we set up new machines. Thanks!
Hi Scott thank you very much, im from spain and i've learnt so much of powershell just by seeing your set up. Your way is the best way to teach someone in my opinion. Cheers and thanks a lot for yout content!
I love your blogs and videos on terminal Pimp, they're the últimate resource for gettint my terminal blazing cool! Thanks Scott, greetings from México!
I'm just getting started with Windows Terminal and WSL. Thanks so much for this. It's great! BTW, at 17:13, If you have VSCode installed, you can type "code $profile". If it doesn't exist it will create it. If it does exist, it will open in VSCode :)
Very good video. I do much prefer your style than the "rush through everything, say obvious things, just copy and paste" style that others have. Just a side note, at 3:41 you set the default Terminal, but this seems to be possible only with the preview version of WIndows Terminal. I'm on the stable Win11 version and spent some time to figure out what I was doing wrong.
Hey, what's the difference between PowerShell (that you downloaded) and Windows.PowerShell (that you hid and do not use?). A lot of people at my work say to never use PowerShell, but I don't know why or which PowerShell they mean. Do you have any insight?
thank you very much for this video!!! People who know how things work never talk about how you do anything because they think this is easy or if you don't know this your stupid! I wish there was more videos like this. I will watch this every time i'm going to setup my command prompt.
Just stumbled onto your channel and this video. Apparently it's been quite a number of years since I last used Windows. As a developer, this kind of configurability used to be an absolute nightmare on Windows. It was the main reason I jumped to a unix system with MacOS. Anytime I wanted to do anything like this, it was-a) "sorry we don't support Windows", b) "we support Windows but you need to update the registry and run this cryptic command in the command prompt and even then it might not work". I mean seriously, installing Ubuntu directly from the Microsoft Store? winget?? Maybe it's time I come back and take a look at Windows. It just looks fun.
Great video. I have watched this now several times and i think i have now absorbed the wisdom. I have included the Python segment (see OhMyPosh documentation for Segments for the Python bit. That shows both the Python version and the environment value set by Conda. Once that is in prompt there is a once off config which disables the display of the envt as s prefix to default prompt.
Would it be possible to get a quick run down on how to do this for WSL and Ubuntu? I can't get the theme or the profile working as well as the terminal icons is only for powershell? I got the powershell setup working on two machines now and I love it but the profile is giving me multiple errors
@@HjaltiAtlason Were you able to get the search history thing working in Ubuntu? so you can arrow up and down and see the list of your previous commands?
I really enjoyed this video! You seem to make the complex doable, with trouble shooting issues on the fly interesting, this was a great learning experience!
I was wondering how to customize the windows terminal like the powerlevel10k in MacOS but here I found what I was looking for. This is the most informative tutorial I got for Windows terminal. Now, I am doing the assignment for Ubuntu terminal 👍. Thank you for all information you provide for us.
I really enjoyed this video, learn soo much from just watching you use the command line and the troubleshooting, which I think was the most important part of this video
This WAS fun, Scott! Learnt a lot following this video closely and redoing everything you did on my work machine, on a Friday evening. Keep `em coming!
your echo command for your test, you can do the variable after the output stream redirector so you get 'echo "test" > $profile' and it will work if the folder exists
Haha, finding out the correct fontname of a Nerdfont was also the most annoying part for me in the past. So proud of me to see a tech god like Scott struggling with it as well :)
At 27:45, the problem you encounter it's due to the copy of your configuration file in the '%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\oh-my-posh\themes' folder and in the same time the PowerShell profile file indicates that the Oh-My-Posh configuration file is read from the 'home' folder ('~' or '%USERPROFILE%'). That is also the reason why it displays 'NO CONFIG' with the 'jandedobbeleer.omp.json' file ... It's because it seems you missed a note on the Oh-My-Posh website which say: "The guides below assume you copied the theme called jandedobbeleer.omp.json to your user's $HOME folder."
PERFECT! Been wanting to dump the old cmder/conemus and use the new Windows Terminal and WSL but it´s been sooo much setup. Thanks a ton @Scott for a clear guide! Haven´t watched it all yet but I´m hoping to build a portable dev box with all this set up, to share and re-use on different boxes.
Thank you so much. Very detailed and important to go with you through the possible errors. And it shows that you are a human too and also have errors when setup things... And it is never boring to listen to you!
I am seeing vertical lines on begining of the promt. @ 41:35 you can see that in the pink section of the promt you see its all clear, when i used that theme or any other theme that envolves rounded corners there seems to be a vertical line. If there a fix for it ?
Blog post www.hanselman.com/blog/my-ultimate-powershell-prompt-with-oh-my-posh-and-the-windows-terminal
SysInternals Suite is now in the store. I wish they would have put the tools in a start menu folder.
thanks for this post, would you mind doing an update on your gpg post? I'd love to learn how to get gpg+yubikey working in WSL in windows 11, seems fairly tough to do currently.
This tutorial is awesome but, do yuo have the terminal icons but for ubuntu?
this command broke my Power Shell. Now it crashes at startup.... IDK how to uninstall it without being able to launch the PS!!!
"Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -RequiredVersion 2.2.0-beta2"
@@ahmadsum1 I ran afoul with this as well at the 43 minute mark with the whole 'PSReadline' bits. (Terminal broke and I could no longer execute any commands in Terminal to try and fix the issue.) I got back to 'normal' by executing the following - as an *ADMINISTRATOR* in a *CMD* prompt - instead of Terminal -> > > pwsh.exe -noprofile -command "Install-Module PSReadLine -Force -SkipPublisherCheck -AllowPrerelease"
At some moment i find myself thinking "He is literally IT Bob Ross", lol
omg so true haha
lol
perfect
Man! I was just about to post this!
Scott, you’re breathtaking :)
Hahaha 🤣
Exactly!
00:00:10 -- START
00:00:36 -- Windows PowerShell opens...
00:01:41 -- 🤔
00:01:59 -- Get ZoomIt (whatever the latest version is!!!)
00:02:32 -- PowerShell shows all terminals installed or set up
00:02:35 --
00:02:53 -- Open JSON file [always use VScode]
00:06:47 -- install wsl
00:07:15 -- ubuntu installed ??
00:13:05 -- fonts
00:15:18 -- Installing oh my posh for windows. By the way I used this command "winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget" as it was suggested by the website
00:15:45 -- NOTE: However, after the installation by typing "oh-my-posh.exe" at my windows terminal, all I get just a unix-like man page for "oh-my-posh.exe".
00:23:05 -- ??
I think the best parts of this video were the parts that you made mistakes and showed us your thought process.
I personally think this kind of teaching style is more useful and actually more time saving!
And please don't say sorry for being a perfect teacher. 💙
Couldn't agree more, Well said.
Completely agree I feel luike you learn from the mistakes you think through yourself and with others and over time taking that approach makes you more valuable than someone who can only follow a prompt or "escalate"
Thank you so much Scott for saying the Ubuntu correctly and respecting our language. As a South African I think you are a genius. Thank you. People don't even want to know what that name is from.
I loved the "break" at 23 minutes for live two factor authentication. It's so important to have a sound and positive attitude towards security.
As a Zulu man I appreciate the effort in pronouncing Ubuntu correctly.
How do I thank you in a better way. You know what, you actually "taught me fishing instead of giving a fish" and I'm extremely happy for the fact that I learnt how to think when I end up with a bunch of errors. I really thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing this kind of video.
I love that I'm not the only who gets stressed out by icons on the desktop! I try to minimize them as much as possible. I didn't know you could hide them and show them like that!
You're not alone. Desktop icons are the worst imo. Keeping stuff on your desktop just gives you an excuse to keep your files disorganized. And the only other mildly useful things on there are app shortcuts which are made entirely obsolete by the search feature.
Were some bugs in PSReadLine 2.2.0-beta1, so instead of going (@42:06)
Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -RequiredVersion 2.2.0-beta1 -AllowPrerelease
Just get the latest beta instead (by leaving out the version number):
Install-Module PSReadLine -AllowPrerelease -Force
Or if you already tried beta1 and now it doesn't work
1. stop ALL instances of pwsh (check task manager)
2. from cmd.exe (or bash on Linux) run: pwsh -noprofile -command "Install-Module PSReadLine -AllowPrerelease -Force"
thanks
It works!! Thanks a lot
Honestly the most productive couple of hours I have spent in a while, thanks to the well paced, no assumption, approach I have a much better Windows 11 setup. Thanks Scott !
1-hour rambling? More like 1-hour of honest, thorough, and worthwhile tech tips. I appreciate it good sir! :)
I appreciate that you mentioned the correct pronunciation of the word "Ubuntu" - I'm a Xhosa speaking South African and have always had a problem with "Ubhantu" pronunciation of the word.
Oh sweet! Thank you so much Scott. I'm Zulu and this is for the first time hearing someone, particularly an American pronouncing correctly and knowing the true meaning of "Ubuntu" Linux. Ubuntu means humanity.
I could watch this all day, I think you should do all your guides uncut and just learn along with the audience.
This si true learned a lot
at 25:16...searching for a file with 'dir /s'...while I prefer to stay in terminals all day, when I search for files, I use 'Everything' (void tools...first hit if you use bing...dunno for the other search engines). I don't use it for much other then "where is a file", but it's awesome for that purpose.
This was Awesome. As someone new to PS this was the best steps that taught me some of the settings that I was struggling with customizing PS.
I basically never comment on TH-cam since the beginning. But this time...I must. I am a long time mac and linux user. I'm also into coding and learning etichal hacking. I still use my macbook pro late 2013 and I just ordered my first windows pc in 30 years yesterday. Of course I tried windows 11 recently and I was impressed. I also was impressed by WLS. The first thing I looked for is how to set up a proper linux bash shell environment in windows and I found out your tutorial. After watching it I'm impressed and I subscribed immediately. You also demonstrate I basically don't need vms anymore. I am a long time oh my zsh user but I love oh my posh now after watching this. Thank you very much sir!
wow the drop down list of commands is powerful - I'm starting to see a lot of application coded with this feature so useful.
Just started on my web developer journey today and had my WSL Linux environment all decked out and ready for life in my coding BootCamp thanks to your other videos. Watched this from start to end and now have all that PSReadline completion goodness working too. Thanks for sharing and making a web developer newcomer's life that little bit easier :)
Were you able to get the terminal icons working? I am also using WSL Linux, and can't firure out the unix command equivalents (35:00)
Love that you call out the correct pronunciation of Ubuntu!
Amazing Video-Tutorial!! Thank you for that!
Quick tip for Google for not showing the right results in 37:55. Using the minus symbol actually tells the engine NOT to include results with the specific keywork. So there are no results with the word "PredictionViewStyle". Adding quotes around it tells the engine to look exactly for what's in the quotes and it does not parse it!
Scott, excellent video. I think this style of teaching is an amazing way to teach people, and to teach them to find solutions to the problems they may face. I would enjoy seeing more of these! Thank you.
This video could be boring for someone, but I've learned many things from here, even from his little mistakes. Thanks, Scott.
28:24 I think the best place for your custom theme settings is next to your Powershell profile so c:/Users//Documents/Powershell
Right? AppData gets blown out so often in my life.
... or c:/Users//OneDrive/Documents/Powershell if you use default backup tool in Windows which is OneDrive. It would be great if not one major flaw: it doesn't allow removing nested folders from syncing to keep them only locally, because if you do it will do the opposite: erase these folders locally and keep them in the cloud and that is just insane and dangerous!
Just excellent. Saved me jumping all over the net to find all the settings and things I need for a great setup.
Thanks Scott! I prefer these long-format unedited videos.
As a long-time Windows developer I've got a highly-customised powershell profile as it is, but some of this stuff takes things to a new level. Thanks!
I know it's titled how to make the ultimate prompt, but really this video is full of many other small things that have greatly improved my workflow.
So as always thanks for the patience to learn us about Posh and command prompt to Make Up our screen. One of the best Posh explanation. Keep going with your good job.
You can use WSL to install distributions. wsl --install
Absolutely appreciate videos like this, and no need to apologize about the length ... since it's a recording we can skip around or play at 2x speed if we want to skip sections we're less interested in. But so many good learning moments in here.
Het Scott you didnt go over the terminal error at 30:05 . My terminal in vscode is not recognizing oh-my-posh.exe, it says "oh-my-posh.exe: The term 'oh-my-posh.exe' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again."
I have this issue too. Fixed it finding the path. In my case C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Programs\oh-my-posh\bin\oh-my-posh.exe
@@willcalltickets how did you set the path?
@@willcalltickets Do you know by any chance where I would set it ? Is it in Vscode user settings.json?
I didn’t set it. Just use the full path on the cmd line. Having issues with github now - just working through it
@@willcalltickets My vscode integrated terminal is still not recognizing oh-my-posh
Acrylic title bar can also be enabled in the appearance settings, no need to look up what to write in the json
Thank you Hansel man - I think you just added +5 years experience to my career
No, it wasnt bored at all, I really appreciate this kind of tutorials thank you man
3:25 if this option is not available to you, you can always start the terminal with *Win+R (Run dialog) "wt"*
This is the best video on internet of this type, you won a subscription
He really says that it's not going to be exciting 22:25 but you know the more I watch this it's just making me more and more interested to using windows sometime I really new to customized stuffs ❤ thank you. Love from india 🇮🇳
Dear Scott, I was introduced to your channel just recently. I appreciate the slow but thorough pace of your content. I believe I prefer getting a more comprehensive answer to my problem than a faster one. Your series on “Computer Stuff They Didn’t Teach You” has been a wonderful resource to fill out some gaps in my knowledge as well as a great resource to look for additional answers to new questions. Keep up your good work! And keep going slow.
Thank you so much for this video, I keep hearing things about downloading nerdfonts and editing windows terminal but seeing an actual human do these things is so much better
Loved this Scott. Prefer it when you go through things like this as we can see you working stuff out too. Many thanks 👍
And kudos for consistent use of the zoom-in so the text on screen is readable even on a phone in portrait. A lot of otherwise good content from other TH-camrs is less effective. Thank you.
Great video showing one step-by-step instead of just verbally saying something which usually will not work.
Great video Scott, thank you. I did run into a few differences, not unexpected since it's been 9 months since you posted. One thing that took quite a bit of sleuthing to figure out, though, was that at the 35:00 minute mark in the video, I couldn't get Import-Module to find the installed Terminal-Icons module (installed as shown in the video). It was installed under ~\Documents\PowerShell\Modules, and Import-Module couldn't find it there. For whatever reason, $Env:PSModulePath did not contain that path. I added the ~\Documents\PowerShell\Modules directory to $Env:PSModulePath, and after that the Import-Module statement worked. This is on Windows 10 20H2 w/ PowerShell 7.2.5.
One of the best demos I have seen. Very impressive.
Thanks a lot, the details were necessary. I've learnt a lot. I did mine just pasting codes without knowing what the code does. Watching this can help me replicate this without the aid of any video guide.
Thanks for a good time. The good thing about watching uncut howtos like this is you always learn something, no matter how much you think you know (thanks for ZoomIt and the Powershell hotkeys!) - and you learn to know the person better as well.
My hat is off to you sir! :) Cheers!
Wow! One of the best tutorials I've ever seen! Love your teaching style! You earned my subscription.
The best thing about your videos Scott is that you assume your audience has zero knowledge on the topic which is what every good teacher in the worlds does.
he's pretty fast doing his stuff to assume we know nothing, may be that I'm pretty dumb because I do not understand him, in my opinion he explains horrible.
Great Video! Honestly I was also hoping to find a script in the description when I first clicked on the link. But I respect the fact that you wanted to do it slowly and actually teach how to do it. For everyone who doesn't want to watch the whole video I can say: It's well worth it!
I really enjoyed this. I like to learn how these work. I can start slowly and add things as I go.
Yes ! Showing the mistakes and how to fix them is the most important teaching tool. Much more valuable than I yet another slick demo.
Thanks, Scott. I had a lot of fun putting that together with you.
As somebody returning to Windows after circa 6 years on a Mac this is invaluable and will really help me get back up to speed! Thank you!
Take a look at cd-extras. With this module you can just type the path and you dont need the "cd" at the beginning. comes in very handy
As a developer, you spend everyday in your shell. Making it place you want to be and be productive is huge. Honestly, I had been staying in git bash in windows simply for getting the path and git metadata. Now I don't have to do that and I can get basically make it look and feel how ever I like. Great Video Scott!
I learned many windows incantations that I didn't know before from this. It was nice that you called out the keys when you would do something interesting. Also its nice to see you make mistakes and correct them on the fly. I'm sure this will come in handy for me and many others when we set up new machines. Thanks!
Hi Scott thank you very much, im from spain and i've learnt so much of powershell just by seeing your set up.
Your way is the best way to teach someone in my opinion.
Cheers and thanks a lot for yout content!
I love the way you structured the video. Just great!
what a great class without editing, thanks I learned a lot
I love your blogs and videos on terminal Pimp, they're the últimate resource for gettint my terminal blazing cool! Thanks Scott, greetings from México!
I love these unedited videos as they are more like the way we all work. Scott I’ve learnt loads of tricks from you thank you.
This video just reappeared in my home and I made share to click on it again and make sure that I had pressed like the first time.
It was.
Good job
I'm just getting started with Windows Terminal and WSL. Thanks so much for this. It's great! BTW, at 17:13, If you have VSCode installed, you can type "code $profile". If it doesn't exist it will create it. If it does exist, it will open in VSCode :)
Just LOVE those slow and detailed vids! Also got a few extra tips on Windows at the same time! Thanks for the awesome Scott!
Gotta love all the details. I adore this video so much.
Very good video. I do much prefer your style than the "rush through everything, say obvious things, just copy and paste" style that others have.
Just a side note, at 3:41 you set the default Terminal, but this seems to be possible only with the preview version of WIndows Terminal. I'm on the stable Win11 version and spent some time to figure out what I was doing wrong.
Did you get to set it by any chance?
I am having the same issue, where it is not showing me Windows Terminal as a Default option.
@@ashbyrezvani No, I gave up. Let's wait some other update, they might enable it soon (hopefully).
Loved this, thank you for such a detailed and informative video. Also, as usual loving the calm approach you present information.
Hey, what's the difference between PowerShell (that you downloaded) and Windows.PowerShell (that you hid and do not use?). A lot of people at my work say to never use PowerShell, but I don't know why or which PowerShell they mean. Do you have any insight?
thank you very much for this video!!! People who know how things work never talk about how you do anything because they think this is easy or if you don't know this your stupid! I wish there was more videos like this. I will watch this every time i'm going to setup my command prompt.
Just stumbled onto your channel and this video. Apparently it's been quite a number of years since I last used Windows. As a developer, this kind of configurability used to be an absolute nightmare on Windows. It was the main reason I jumped to a unix system with MacOS. Anytime I wanted to do anything like this, it was-a) "sorry we don't support Windows", b) "we support Windows but you need to update the registry and run this cryptic command in the command prompt and even then it might not work". I mean seriously, installing Ubuntu directly from the Microsoft Store? winget?? Maybe it's time I come back and take a look at Windows. It just looks fun.
Great video. I have watched this now several times and i think i have now absorbed the wisdom.
I have included the Python segment (see OhMyPosh documentation for Segments for the Python bit. That shows both the Python version and the environment value set by Conda. Once that is in prompt there is a once off config which disables the display of the envt as s prefix to default prompt.
Awesome video thank you! - Btw 7:23 you can install distros from the command line you just have to do wsl --install -d [distro name]
Oops thanks! I got confused
Would it be possible to get a quick run down on how to do this for WSL and Ubuntu? I can't get the theme or the profile working as well as the terminal icons is only for powershell? I got the powershell setup working on two machines now and I love it but the profile is giving me multiple errors
Sure
@@shanselman I'm also interested in that. I got everything to work via Ubuntu/Bash except for Terminal icons.
@@HjaltiAtlason Were you able to get the search history thing working in Ubuntu? so you can arrow up and down and see the list of your previous commands?
I really enjoyed this video! You seem to make the complex doable, with trouble shooting issues on the fly interesting, this was a great learning experience!
I was wondering how to customize the windows terminal like the powerlevel10k in MacOS but here I found what I was looking for. This is the most informative tutorial I got for Windows terminal. Now, I am doing the assignment for Ubuntu terminal 👍. Thank you for all information you provide for us.
I really enjoyed this video, learn soo much from just watching you use the command line and the troubleshooting, which I think was the most important part of this video
Thanks Scott for this awesome practical guide .. and I set my terminal exactly like this .. feels great
This is an amazing tutorial with a clear explanation so far, surely recommended.
This WAS fun, Scott! Learnt a lot following this video closely and redoing everything you did on my work machine, on a Friday evening. Keep `em coming!
I learned a lot about customizing your terminal today. Thanks :)
Fantastic tutorial, had to pause few times just to think things through, the end product, Beautiful, SH = National treasure.
I'm using this since 1+ year and loving it - would also love a part 2 :D
Feels really easy to navigate on Windows by watching you tab-ing all over the place so quick.
your echo command for your test, you can do the variable after the output stream redirector so you get 'echo "test" > $profile' and it will work if the folder exists
Great video. I discovered lot of new things in this video. and now my terminal looks cool. All thanks to you !!
"Windows Terminal" isn't available as a "Default terminal application" option. Any idea on how can I fix that?
Try install Windows Terminal Preview
@@ptchiang Thanks! That version is showing "Window Terminal Preview" as an option.
Fantastic video. Each time I go through your videos, I keep learning something new. Thanks a lot Scott!
I’m so happy I came across your channel.
Haha, finding out the correct fontname of a Nerdfont was also the most annoying part for me in the past. So proud of me to see a tech god like Scott struggling with it as well :)
@37:49 that told google to find pages which contain "Not found" but don't contain "PredictionViewStyle" (because of the dash/minus sign)
It’s always valuable to take the crawl, walk, run approach. Thanks for being detailed oriented Scott!
Thanks a lot, used it to make Windows Terminal my default terminal for WSL Ubuntu and looking awesome!
At 27:45, the problem you encounter it's due to the copy of your configuration file in the '%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\oh-my-posh\themes' folder and in the same time the PowerShell profile file indicates that the Oh-My-Posh configuration file is read from the 'home' folder ('~' or '%USERPROFILE%').
That is also the reason why it displays 'NO CONFIG' with the 'jandedobbeleer.omp.json' file ...
It's because it seems you missed a note on the Oh-My-Posh website which say: "The guides below assume you copied the theme called jandedobbeleer.omp.json to your user's $HOME folder."
PERFECT! Been wanting to dump the old cmder/conemus and use the new Windows Terminal and WSL but it´s been sooo much setup. Thanks a ton @Scott for a clear guide! Haven´t watched it all yet but I´m hoping to build a portable dev box with all this set up, to share and re-use on different boxes.
Thank you so much. Very detailed and important to go with you through the possible errors. And it shows that you are a human too and also have errors when setup things... And it is never boring to listen to you!
I love how you pronounce Ubuntu correctly :) kudos!
I am seeing vertical lines on begining of the promt. @ 41:35 you can see that in the pink section of the promt you see its all clear, when i used that theme or any other theme that envolves rounded corners there seems to be a vertical line. If there a fix for it ?
Great video, I like the format. Keep doing more of those videos, there is always something new we can see even after years of coding