When you have access to a lot of machines run by different organizations but not administration privileges on most of them, it's a hassle.

So put your zsh config in a git repo, clone it wherever you need it and symlink to the repo?

Uh huh. Now I have to install git on all those computers as well as make sure there's a recent-enough copy of zsh. Much less work that way.

Or I can just use the bash that's already there.

Your concern about git however is unrelated to shell choice. I customize bash quite a bit (my own completions, etc.) and maintain dotfiles in a git repository. I have a post-receive hook that tars up my dotfiles and puts them at a public location on my http server that only I know about so that I can easily get them when I'm on a machine without git. I'm not going to do that for every machine, but if I'm stuck debugging something on some odd machine, at the very last I want my vim settings around.

It makes more sense for vim than zsh though. What color your prompt is has a lot less bearing on your productivity than your editor configuration. (Though I don't do much of that either).

I am of the same practice as fusiongyro. I also expand on that and have a very simple configuration for Vim. Once you go beyond a handful of machines, you never know what to expect on the system. "Lowest common denominator" wins out for me almost everytime.

This was an honest question to clarify what was meant by faded away... I appreciated the response... what is the problem? Sheesh