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Installing zsh and oh-my-zsh on Windows
  1. Install zsh from cygwin
  2. Install oh-my-zsh from https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh . Follow the manual instructions
  3. To make zsh default on ConEmu, create a task with C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /usr/bin/zsh - . Make it the defaut shell.
  4. To start a zsh shell on demand, add this batch script to your path or start menu or wherever.
start C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /usr/bin/zsh -
@elucidsoft
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I really freaking hate how awful the terminal stuff is on Windows. This is a perfect example...

@bohdanmykytey
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use Ubuntu - it's free

@retsi101
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It's amazing, I tried running the command:

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

But it deletes Mintty.

What should be done?

@NileshMS
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NileshMS commented Feb 5, 2023

Mintty throwing below message prompt. how can I stop this annoying prompt? its happening when I am closing git bash.

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