--- title: "Test" date: 2023-09-12T17:19:08Z draft: false --- Yesterday, I could not get my ZSH shell to work at all. As I kept trying things, I was getting all these weird errors. I started posting about this on Mastodon too. [Mastodon Thread](https://fosstodon.org/@notnorm/111047573608738701) where I kept asking myself - no responses! Finally, I realized the issue. And that was the [Starship](https://www.starship.rs) cross-shell prompt. Turns out, it was making everything really really slow. I finally got it fixed by doing the following: * Delete everything from `~/.zsh_sessions/` and `~/.zsh_history`. * Do not use `source ~/.zshrc` and definitely don't use it in your `zshrc` file! Instead of `source` use `exec zsh`