I went from Vim and shell beginner a couple of years ago to a serious user, and built up a nice set of dotfiles along the way.
Janus and oh-my-zsh were big for me, but I never actually installed either one.
Instead, those were my Vim and Zsh department stores.
I'd get the itch to try something new, so I'd "go shopping" at those projects, find something new to pull into my config, and I'd learn to use that plugin or make sure I knew what that shell option was now doing for me.
Then, eventually, I'd get the itch and go shopping again.
Over time, I built up my dotfiles. As I learned, I naturally found myself ditching some of the plugins I pulled in along the way, and modifying or replacing some of the shell config with my own creation. But those projects we're great sources of some early "wins".
Janus and oh-my-zsh were big for me, but I never actually installed either one.
Instead, those were my Vim and Zsh department stores.
I'd get the itch to try something new, so I'd "go shopping" at those projects, find something new to pull into my config, and I'd learn to use that plugin or make sure I knew what that shell option was now doing for me.
Then, eventually, I'd get the itch and go shopping again.
Over time, I built up my dotfiles. As I learned, I naturally found myself ditching some of the plugins I pulled in along the way, and modifying or replacing some of the shell config with my own creation. But those projects we're great sources of some early "wins".