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I'm senior, been working in the industry for closing on 25 years now. I usually avoid anything "ohh shiny".

For most of my career I used a very simple PS1:

    export PS1="\[\033[1;32m\][\t \u@\h \w]\\$\[\033[0m\] "
timestamp, who I am, what box I'm on, where I am.

I've tried prompts in the past, and they mostly annoyed me, or never showed me useful information. I've been a happy starship user for several years now. I've got the config tweaked so that it only shows me things I specifically care about. It's lightning fast.




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