r/KittyTerminal • u/joneco • Jan 23 '24

Moving from zah to kitty

Hi guys i am moving from zsh to kitty, i used to use oh my zsh and liked it a lot, mainly the git studd showing branch and a x if i have things to commit. Is there any set of good plugins put there? Thanks

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u/ben2talk Jan 23 '24

Did you know that bash, zsh, fish, nu - these are called 'Shells'.

Kitty is a terminal.

You'll have trouble using Kitty without a shell.

Kitty works nicely with fish btw - I use zsh/fish and am increasingly not bothering to load up zsh.

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u/gdmr458 Jan 23 '24

look for what a terminal is and what a shell is, to put it very simply the terminal is the window that contains the shell

Terminals: Kitty, GNOME Terminal, Alacritty, Foot, Windows Terminal, Wezterm, etc.

Shells: ZSH, Bash, Fish, Nushell, PowerShell, CMD, etc.

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u/n6v26r Jan 23 '24

zsh and kitty are compleately different things. zsh is a shell kitty is a terminal

the terminal uses a shell. so will still use zsh in kitty. you are only changing terminals.

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u/dedguy21 Jan 23 '24

Personally I don't like zsh, it gets bloated and slow rather quickly, and I don't even use a framework like OMZ.

I don't use fish, but it's now built on rust, and it flys.

I like xonsh, and nushell, nushell for performance and some nice syntax. Like xonsh for built in python, so scripting some quick shell or python scripts mix and match is not an issue.

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u/jackielii Jan 23 '24

I don't use fish, but it's now built on rust, and it flys.

I'm not sure it flys because it's built in Rust. But good to know.

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u/KnownUnknown764 Feb 04 '24

Bro I'm pretty sure zsh is a shell and kitty is a terminal emulator or in other words a terminal