{"id":213002,"date":"2026-02-13T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/4-linux-commands-that-will-make-your-terminal-look-incredible\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:20:08","slug":"4-linux-commands-that-will-make-your-terminal-look-incredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/4-linux-commands-that-will-make-your-terminal-look-incredible\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Linux commands that will make your terminal look incredible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/how-to-make-your-linux-terminal-look-stunning\/\">4 Linux commands that will make your terminal look incredible<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/how-to-make-your-linux-terminal-look-stunning\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/how-to-make-your-linux-terminal-look-stunning\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Replace Bash with Zsh (sudo apt install zsh; chsh -s $(which zsh)) for autosuggestions and config power.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Install Oh My Zsh for 150+ themes and 300+ plugins to easily theme and extend Zsh.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Use Kitty, fastfetch, and Starship; add fastfetch and eval &#8220;$(starship init zsh)&#8221; to ~\/.zshrc for info + flashy prompt\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The default Linux terminal (at least on most distros) looks pretty dull and boring. It&#8217;s just a blinking cursor on a solid color background. Not a lot of visual appeal there, so you. However, we&#8217;re on Linux where everything is customizable, including the terminal and the shell. Let&#8217;s me show you how to do just that.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"replace-the-default-shell\">\n                        Replace the default shell<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>The window you type your commands inside is the terminal or the terminal emulator. However, the terminal has a &#8220;brain&#8221; that interprets and executes those commands. This &#8220;brain&#8221; is called the shell. In Linux, like all things, the shell can be customized too.<\/p>\n<p>The default shell (usually Bash) functions just fine, but it&#8217;s missing modern features like autocomplete and syntax highlighting. It&#8217;s not very customizable either. I usually replace my default shell with Zsh. It&#8217;s a modern shell with tons of customization features.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on a Debian machine, so I can use the APT package manager to quickly install the Zsh shell.<\/p>\n<p>    sudo apt install zsh    <\/p>\n<p>I can quickly switch to this new shell by typing zshand pressing Enter.<\/p>\n<p>To make this switch permanent, run this command.<\/p>\n<p>    chsh -s $(which zsh)    <\/p>\n<p>                            &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/how-to-make-your-linux-terminal-look-stunning\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Linux commands that will make your terminal look incredible https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/how-to-make-your-linux-terminal-look-stunning\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-13 06:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/customized-linux-shell.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[91,71],"class_list":["post-213002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-debian","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213004,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213002\/revisions\/213004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}