I know, I know — I’ve promised tmux configuration twice now. But when I sat down to work on it, I kept getting distracted by how bare the shell itself felt. No prompt worth looking at, no autocompletion hints, no syntax coloring. Every time I typed a command, the stock zsh experience reminded me there was unfinished business here first.
In the previous post, I wrapped up the installation story. We now have four strategies for getting software onto a fresh machine. But installing tools is only half the job — they need configuring. And eza is the perfect place to start, because it’s a drop-in replacement for something I use hundreds of times a day: ls.
Getting Started with Dotfile Management # Up until now, I’ve mostly been working with GUI-driven IDEs on Windows. I wrote about why I’d like to shift to the terminal — the short version is that a portable, keyboard-driven workflow matters when you’re building solo. But alongside that shift, something else has been happening. Since Docker entered my daily work, I’ve been spending more and more time on Linux again — something I hadn’t done seriously since studying computer science. Linux stepped back into my life gradually, and for a long time I just used it without thinking much about it. I never cared about the fundamentals.