On Mac I use iTerm2 with the Solarized Dark theme from the iterm2colorschemes website.
My preferred shell is zsh. If it's not installed and I don't have administrator rights, I stick with bash.
chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh
For the default zsh settings I use prezto.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto.git "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zprezto"
setopt EXTENDED_GLOB
for rcfile in "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}"/.zprezto/runcoms/^README.md(.N); do
ln -s "$rcfile" "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.${rcfile:t}"
done
In order for my default profile to look decent, I need the powerline adapted fonts.
git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git powerline-fonts
cd powerline-fonts
./install.sh