Zsh not hitting ~/.profile

vs. Zsh runs , not , when it is invoked as a login shell. The reason is that zsh has enough incompatibilities with standard shells to break scripts. Zsh does run if it is called as or . But if your objective is to get a zsh prompt when you log in, that's no help. You can make your login shell and include in your . Then when you open a terminal, the terminal will launch zsh (except for a few terminal emulators don't obey the setting). But you will still have when you log in over ssh. This can be…