Alacritty might just be the fastest cross-platform terminal emulator in existence. You can easily customize it to your liking by creating a .ymlconfig file. Alacritty doesn’t create the config file for you, but it looks for one in the following locations:

Once installed, all you have to do is run alacritty-themes. Choose the theme from the list of options by typing the theme name and press Enter to apply. You can also navigate with j and k keys for up/down. The list of options are cycled through automatically so you can go to the last theme by just pressing up arrow key. Recently the Termite maintainer decided that he has had enough dealing with the VTE library and rather than handing the project off to someone else has decid.

Linux/macOS

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.yml
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.yml
$HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
$HOME/.alacritty.yml

Windows

- %APPDATA%alacrittyalacritty.yml

NOTE: you can referrence the default alacritty.ymlconfig file here.

Ok, now that we took care of the config file, let’s apply a theme. You have two options here: You can either search for themes and manually copy-paste the color scheme into your alacritty.ymlconfig file or use a CLI tool called alacritty-themes which comes preconfigured with over 150 themes.

INSTALLATION

Install with npm: npm i -g alacritty-themes
If you are using npx you don’t have to install the package: npx alacritty-themes
Arch Linux ( and derivates ) users can install alacritty-themes from the AUR.

USAGE

Once installed, all you have to do is run alacritty-themes. Choose the theme from the list of options by typing the theme name and press Enter to apply. You can also navigate with j and k keys for up/down.

The list of options are cycled through automatically so you can go to the last theme by just pressing up arrow key. The search is fuzzy so you can enter any part of the theme name to search.

If you don’t have a config file already in place, alacritty-themes will create one for you. Applying a theme will take immediate effect. Otherwise, just restart alacritty.

Also, you can aliasalacritty-themes to at to save time.

Install A Distro:

Run the following in powershell as adminEnable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
Install a distro (ex: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9N9TNGVNDL3Q) Metro boomin nexus pack.
Open your distro you installed via the start menu, let it setup
Update and upgrade

Install and configure a terminal

Alacritty

Browning citori serial number lookup. choco install alacritty
To use WSL, go to %APPDATA%alacrittyalacritty.yml, and set to use bash shell:

Install zsh, oh-my-zsh, and nice themes and fonts

Install zsh and oh my zsh

Switch to use ZSH by default (nano ~/.bashrc):

Reload terminal (source ~/.bashrc), install powerlevel10k

Set to use powerlevel10k theme (nano ~/.zshrc):

Reload terminal (source ~/.zshrc), install fonts:

Alternatively, grab something like https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/Meslo/M/Regular/complete

Install Alacritty

Install fonts via powershell (open as admin):

Set font for terminal
Alacritty:
If you got a nerd font like I had above, use it instead:
Also set the following in your .zshrc:
Set a terminal theme:

Fix dir colors (in .zshrc):

Install Dev Tools

Node and npm

Install nodenv

Setup nodenv path (nano ~/.zshrc):

Install node and update npm after reloading terminal (source ~/.zshrc)

Python and pip

Install pyenv:

Setup pyenv path (nano ~/.zshrc):

Alacritty Windows Bash

Install dependencies, python version, and update pip after reloading terminal (source ~/.zshrc):