Products · Product
Oh My Zsh
Raised as a usability problem by 31 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 18 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
- 1Shell is slow to start or respondUnreviewed
- 1Shell is slow to start or respondUnreviewed
Every issue, all time, most people first
Shell is slow to start or respondUnreviewed
20122026- Shell gets slower over time and the commenter can't find the cause2026-01-22
- Each new terminal takes about 400ms to open, making the machine feel slow2026-01-10
- Shell takes a long time to load, which is annoying2026-01-10
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 32 complaints
- Shell gets slower over time and the commenter can't find the cause2026-01-22
- Command lag makes typing feel sluggish, like a slow ssh connection2026-01-11
- Hard to get working out of the box; setups are brittle2026-01-11
- Shell is so slow that every new tab makes the user wait2026-01-10
- Each new terminal takes about 400ms to open, making the machine feel slow2026-01-10
- Upstream default config tweaks break the user's muscle memory2026-01-10
- Shell takes a long time to load, which is annoying2026-01-10
- Long shell startup interrupts flow when opening many quick terminal sessions2026-01-10
- Prompt lags and setup bloat make the shell slow and confusing to use2026-01-10
- Setup is slow and cluttered, making the shell hard to work with2025-07-21
- Bloated plugin system makes zsh harder to learn and configure2025-07-21
- Bloated slow config leads to messy, sluggish shell setup2025-07-20
- Update nagging and auto-update spam slow new shells and clutter the console2024-01-23
- Each new terminal window has a second or two of delay before use2024-01-23
- Prompts to check for plugin updates on startup, interrupting the user's work by default2023-08-26
- Prompt waits seconds on slow git status, making users wait for prompt2022-04-02
- Constantly prompts to update on every new shell start, and updating is slow2021-06-16
- Shell feels slow to start or respond, annoying the user2021-06-16
- Slow to respond for very simple tasks, even on powerful machines2020-09-29
- Shell prompt git status is very slow, forking many processes2020-07-26
- Shell took about a second to return after each command2017-12-14
- Shell takes too long to boot, so Emacs hangs waiting for it2016-03-24
- Default aliases are unintuitive and hard to remember2015-07-11
- Terminal takes about 10 seconds to show a prompt on open2015-05-19
- Terminal takes 10-15 seconds to show a prompt2015-05-18
- Shell feels slow to start for some users, cause unclear2015-05-18
- Tab completion gets slow because it repeatedly opens SSH connections to fetch lists2015-05-18
- Shell feels slow and annoying to use on the server2015-05-18
- Tab completion is often very slow on a fast system2014-08-10
- Heavily plugged-in setup makes learning confusing and breaks hard to diagnose2012-11-30
- Long completion menu is annoying and hard to use2012-09-28
- Terminal tab takes almost 20 seconds to open, so the user gave up2012-02-01