Blog post www.hanselman.com/blog/my-ultimate-powershell-prompt-with-oh-my-posh-and-the-windows-terminal

At some moment i find myself thinking "He is literally IT Bob Ross", lol

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. 💙

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.

As a Zulu man I appreciate the effort in pronouncing Ubuntu correctly.

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!

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.

I could watch this all day, I think you should do all your guides uncut and just learn along with the audience.

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 !

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 :)

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.

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 these unedited videos as they are more like the way we all work. Scott I’ve learnt loads of tricks from you thank you.

Delightful tutorial packed with information. I'm so glad that I didn't skip to the end and watched the whole video! Comparing to most content creators usually you'll end up with bunch of time wasters for monetization but Scott Hanselman always finds a way to make it fun and easy.

1-hour rambling? More like 1-hour of honest, thorough, and worthwhile tech tips. I appreciate it good sir! :)

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 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.

Loved this Scott. Prefer it when you go through things like this as we can see you working stuff out too. Many thanks 👍

It makes me feel less utterly stupid when someone as experienced as you goes through exactly the same process I do when doing something new. There a huge amount to be said for seeing the unvarnished truth of how discovery happens. I’d love to see two versions of every tutorial published, one beautifully edited and perfect, and another, minimally edited, version showing all the problems, pitfalls, debugging, frustration etc., that goes into making them.

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!

I basically never comment on KZfaq 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 excellent. Saved me jumping all over the net to find all the settings and things I need for a great setup.

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!

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.

This video could be boring for someone, but I've learned many things from here, even from his little mistakes. Thanks, Scott.

what a great class without editing, thanks I learned a lot

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 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.

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.

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 🇮🇳

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!

Great video showing one step-by-step instead of just verbally saying something which usually will not work.

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.

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.

Wow! One of the best tutorials I've ever seen! Love your teaching style! You earned my subscription.

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!

Love that you call out the correct pronunciation of Ubuntu!

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.

wow the drop down list of commands is powerful - I'm starting to see a lot of application coded with this feature so useful.

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.

I learned a lot about customizing your terminal today. Thanks :)

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!

Now i gonna turn off my icons because they are stressing me out, you're exactly the kind of guy to learn from.

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 prefer these long-format unedited videos.

No, it wasnt bored at all, I really appreciate this kind of tutorials thank you man

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!

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

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

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 love your blogs and videos on terminal Pimp, they're the últimate resource for gettint my terminal blazing cool! Thanks Scott, greetings from México!

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!

This is the best video on internet of this type, you won a subscription

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 KZfaqrs is less effective. Thank you.

Just LOVE those slow and detailed vids! Also got a few extra tips on Windows at the same time! Thanks for the awesome Scott!

Fantastic video. Each time I go through your videos, I keep learning something new. Thanks a lot Scott!

Thank you Hansel man - I think you just added +5 years experience to my career

Wow what a great video. You are a great teacher. I really like this long form version with the explanations, I learned so much

It’s always valuable to take the crawl, walk, run approach. Thanks for being detailed oriented Scott!

One of the best demos I have seen. Very impressive.

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.

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!

This was a very good walk-through, whether you are familiar with this or not. Great job, as usual, Scott.

The first thin that I do in a new machine is to turn on Dark Mode =] Great video Scott, thanks for sharing all that knowledge.

Feels really easy to navigate on Windows by watching you tab-ing all over the place so quick.

Scott, you are the man! I really love your contents. Though I had already customized my windows terminal following your previous videos but really enjoyed this 1 hour journey 😊 Great video Scott !!

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!

This is what the first thing to do when dell push upgrade for me. Very thanks Hanselman, great video!

I can't hit Like enough. Thank You for showing me so much more than I ever expected.

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.

Just the kind of video I was looking for.. I have always loved all your videos and especially the ones you do on Mechanics.. Respect and thanks

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.

Thanks, Scott. I had a lot of fun putting that together with you.

this is the TRUE demo🔝 I love watching Scott solve obstacles in the way😂

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]

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!

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.

This is the first video of yours that I've watched and it is super great. I loved the "low and slow" approach which allowed me to follow along and configure my machine as well. One additional thing that I'd love is if powershell could update the title of the tab to the hostname of a machine I ssh into. I've found plenty of easy solutions for bash involving .bashrc, and they do work for me, but I'd prefer to not have to run the bash command to drop into WSL before I ssh. Thanks!

I really appreciate that you use all caps WINS style machine name for the studio laptop. That's how I know you are a legit old school windows nerd.

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 :)

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 :)

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

Great video. I discovered lot of new things in this video. and now my terminal looks cool. All thanks to you !!

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

That was a cool tutorial and I enjoyed every second of it. It is quite educational to see somebody's workflow, and yours is swift and effective (in spite of you claiming otherwise several times in your video). Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Absolutely Awesome!! I just set all of this up on my window 10 and I love it. I learned so many tricks from watching this video. I am going to watch another one of your videos. I think Git 101 basics will be the next adventure. Thanks Scott for your time and may God Bless you in everything you do!

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 is perfect, its what I need to understand what and how things work, i wish more vids were like this. thankyu thankyou

This is awesome. These improvements really make my terminal look and feel soooooo much better!

I learned a lot from this thank you so much! I really appreciate you walking through this in real time without editing!

Thank you for making this! I have learned lots of cool tricks from your KZfaq channel over the last years. You convinced me to install Windows on my PCs.

This is an amazing tutorial with a clear explanation so far, surely recommended.

"...turn off my icons because they're stressing me out." Thank you for knowing me, Scott.

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

I love how you pronounce Ubuntu correctly :) kudos!

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

Loved this, thank you for such a detailed and informative video. Also, as usual loving the calm approach you present information.

Amazing job. I got the very bad luck of trying this while PSGallery was down, so I had to use scoop for downloading Terminal-Icons, and had to wait around 2 hours to complete the part with PSReadLine. But as you mention, those are opportunities to learn. I will be preparing my terminal for Rust and Data Science. Thanks for the video, subscribed right away!