---
title: "My Ultimate PowerShell prompt with Oh My Posh and the Windows Terminal"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-ultimate-powershell-prompt-with-oh-my-posh-and-the-windows-terminal-f-sje5sij
source_url: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/my-ultimate-powershell-prompt-with-oh-my-posh-and-the-windows-terminal
type: article
source: "Discover .NET"
published: 2021-09-01T08:45:23.554Z
updated: 2026-03-15T04:02:00.292Z
tags: ["general-programming", "powershell", "windows"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 29
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# My Ultimate PowerShell prompt with Oh My Posh and the Windows Terminal

**[Discover .NET](https://daily.dev/sources/discdot)** · 6 min read · 29 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

My Ultimate PowerShell prompt with Oh My Posh and the Windows Terminal Open Source | Win10 | Win11 Posted in I've long blogged about my love of setting up a nice terminal. This post will serve as my "setting up a new machine" post until I get around to writing a script to do all this for me.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.hanselman.com/blog/my-ultimate-powershell-prompt-with-oh-my-posh-and-the-windows-terminal>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@owaincodes** · 2 upvotes

> This makes Powershell so much nicer to use. Would be great if this became a built in option.

**@papoel** · 0 upvotes

> Really cool I love that ! Thanks 👍 ☺️

**@kraves** · 0 upvotes

> Thanks for this insight and sharing it. A little off topic, I installed npm package in powershell and then got this response:
>
> added 186 packages in 2m
>
> 7 packages are looking for funding
> run 'npm fund' for details
>
> Could you possibly please guide me on the next few commands to gather this info, I just want to avoid a surprise or unwanted bill that might take the shirt off my back?
>
> Im so curious!!!!

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