This guide is to provide some quick steps to setup zsh,oh-my-zsh framework with essential plugins and powerline10k theme

Change default shell to zsh

sudo usermod -s /usr/bin/zsh $USER

Setup oh-my-zsh framework

An excellent framework with extensible plugins and themes to manage zsh configurations.

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Install essential plugins

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

Enable installed plugins

Update ~/.zshrc file to enable the installed plugins

plugins=(git zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-autosuggestions)

Installing Powerlevel10K Theme

Although zsh comes with many pre-installed themes, this external community supported theme standsout.

Install required fonts

yain ttf-dejavu ttf-meslo-nerd-font-powerlevel10k

Install the theme

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k

When the installation is complete, a wizard will guide us through the rest of configuration and tweaks for a powerup shell

The wizard can anytime be re-run with p10k configure command