When comparing Bureau vs Pure, the Slant community recommends Pure for most people. In the question“What's the best theme for Oh My Zsh?” Pure is ranked 2nd while Bureau is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Pure is:
Uses a combination of colors to differentiate between different elements in the prompt. No brackets or unnecessary special characters.
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Pros
Pro Changes color when you are logged in as root
Pro Has current date/time
Pro Has git/mercurial integration
Pro Beautiful and meaningful colors
Pro Comes with ohmyzsh
Pro Minimalistic
Uses a combination of colors to differentiate between different elements in the prompt. No brackets or unnecessary special characters.
Pro Very simple and clean + clear
Pro Git integration
Shows which git branch you are currently on and whether the branch is dirty (in that case it shows a *
next to the branch name).
Pro Included in oh-my-zsh
This plugin is included in the base installation.
Cons
Con Uses two lines
Con Inflexible
Configuration options are very limited. If the defaults don't work for you, you have to either patch the code or look for a different theme.
Con Requires a custom color scheme to look decent
It looks awful with all builtin color schemes. I couldn't make it look the way it does on the screenshot.
Con Git prompt stops working after some time
Con No number of background processes
You won't see if there are background processes running (or how many).