The Ultimate Mac Terminal Setup - Beginner Tutorial

Revamp your Terminal on Mac! Here's how you can turn your Mac Terminal into a Beautiful and Productive space. 💻

In this video, we will go over tools you can install to make your mac terminal go from bland, boring and monotonous to visually stunning, functional and an enjoyable experience. We start off by installing "oh my zsh" which is a community driven framework that adds themes, plugins and helpers.

We also use our very own Warp Terminal, a modern, rust-based terminal with AI built in to assist in your productivity. (optional)

We then look into tools like fzf and exa that completely override some of the basic commands that we are used to using but adds 10x more functionality so that you don't ever have to bring your fingers away from the keyboard.

Whether you're a developer, a sysadmin, or just a mac enthusiast looking to streamline your terminal experience, this video is for you!

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:16 Fonts
0:55 Oh My Zsh
2:25 Powerlevel10K
3:15 bat (command)
4:16 fzf (Amazing Navigation)
5:44 Homebrew (Mac Dependency Manager)
6:32 exa (ls replacement)
7:20 Diff so Fancy (diff replacement)
8:05 Outro

[LucijaC]

Warp looks like a great app - what makes me hesitant to use it is a mandatory sign up. Why do I need to sign up to use Terminal?

[berliangur]

Below is fcd function I had to manually type looking at the video:

fcd() {
local dir
dir=$(find ${1:-.} -type d -not -path '*/\.*' 2> /dev/null | fzf
+m) && cd "$dir"
}

[JakobsenTom]

yeah yeah it all looks nice but remember what we all like intially - the ultra simple terminal with zsh - and core unix commands.
Not a semi-ux replacement, not a bunch of ultra simple extra installs, not a collection of noise. Well anyways did I say it looks nice so I may give it a go some day but was actually just trying to find info on adjusting font and color in built-in macOs terminal 🙂

[MarceloAlcantaraX]

Thanks for the video. Super interesting.

As a suggestion, would just ask to add the commands in the description - as its quite hard to follow through the video.

[YOitsBA]

Cool video but you spent like 70% of this video showing your face (no offense) and just "talking" about features with little blips of actual demonstration. I finished it and I heard a lot, but I didn't really learn anything 😂 or SEE much that would make me want to check out anything you've recommended.

[hubrismaxim]

Shouldn't be using exa, it's been deprecated for a couple years. Use eza instead

[randomtvninja]

Interesting looks like you cobbled a truly open source warp terminal. Hitting majority of the features of warp and unlike warp these will work on Linux.

[iamramiz]

Great vid. FYI exa is no longer maintained; eza is a good alternative.

[warpdotdev]

Let us know what tech you'd like us to cover next! :)

[Nobleflex]

Thanks bruh, would you be able to post the commands lines under your video description that would be more than helpful to me and others.

[gopikrishna]

it looks great, but it does take up a lot of RAM, atleast if you are using windows wsl

[kebman]

Nice. Unix is finally catching up to Linux. :)

[patryk_rogala]

Amazing setup! I've been using it for a while now and love its customizability!

[laughingvampire]

delta-git is better than diff-so-fancy and integrates with bat, git, etc. and diffstatic makes syntax aware diffs

[bobbyLovesTech]

I prefer lsd over exa - dunno why just do - it’s pretty much identical

[souhailmarghabi]

The command mentioned for fzf is missing.

[vincenguyendev]

I can't use zsh with warp terminal

[cfytcze]

i think colorls is much better than exa. Colorls contains all folder and file icon and even can be customize the colors also.

[iamworstgamer]

the thing is warp has changed everything

[neerpatel]

You forgot to mention the most important detail. When we do homebrew install, it will keep asking you for password. If it is your personal laptop, then you can use "SUDO" and "interactive=0", But, if it is corporate laptop, You can't skip this. (There should have been a way around it ).