How to make your terminal pretty for Windows or Linux

Overview

You want to look your terminal pretty using colourful icons and providing you the context, but every time you are following the same approach either something is changed or due to environment constraint, it is found to be not working. In this article, I will not just re-iterate on the steps but would like to give universal approach and explanation so that if there is any issues that come up can be troubleshooted easily.

The steps that I followed works in VS Code for Windows and associated Remote…