In case people are interested, here is my setup. If you find something you think is cooler, let me know. I love finding new things and improving my setup over time.
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Your shell is one of your major interfaces into your computer. On every computer that I spend more than an hour on, I make sure to set up my environment. The time it takes to set it up is well worth the efficiency gained. Otherwise, using the default environment becomes a very painful and frustrating experience. I got no time for that.
zsh has a lot of nice features baked into it. Some of these things you can do with bash, but it requires configuration. The Wikipedia article gives a good summary of some of the features of zsh.
oh my zsh provides a lot of great themes and plugins that work with zsh.
A powerful theme for zsh. It has a fancy setup script that walks you through all of its options.
I use iTerm2 for my terminal, which is a macOS-only application. Here are details about it:
Color scheme: Tomorrow Night Eighties
Theme: Powerlevel10k
Font: InputMono manually patched with Nerd Fonts