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What's your favourite to use? Mine is Fish due to its ease of use and user friendly approach.

Bash is the pepperoni of shell tools being reliable in every field no matter what but I've moved to Fish as I wanted to try something different.

So what's your shell of choice?

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[–] gianni@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I have customized ZSH to be very similar to Fish

[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Powershell, but heavily customized.

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[–] loppy@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago
[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

xterm, because shortcut keys do what they are supposed to.

Edit:

Bash because it's default.

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

xterm is a terminal emulator, not a shell. Anything that produces a terminal-compatible text stream can be started as the first program.

e.g. xterm -e nano, assuming you have the nano editor installed, has no instance of a traditional shell (e.g. bash, zsh) running between the xterm and the editor, but the editor still works.

You could argue that makes the editor itself a shell of sorts, because it's interactive and you can do things with it, but it's still not the xterm that inherits that title.

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[–] t0mri@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fish & dash.

[–] MerryChyrsler@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

At the moment I'm using zsh with powerlevel10k. But powerlevel10k is not really supported anymore, and seems to be basically on life support. While it still works for now, I have been thinking of switching over to fish. But the lack of posix compatibility is holding me back a bit.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

While fish is easy to set up, I can't even be arsed to do that most times, so bash ends up being the one I use most.

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I used zsh, urxvt and konsole. I do prefer zsh. Urxvt is nice too.

[–] 69420@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think you're conflating shells and terminals.

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I said I prefer zsh. I used terminals like urxvt when I used window managers. Urxvt + zsh works fine. On kde I didn't mind using zsh + konsole. Hope that clears up.

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 0 points 5 months ago

Swisher sweets but backwoods works too

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

I don't really rate zsh personally. I find the additional features/syntactic sugar it adds are a poor tradeoff for lower portability. I also end up changing the settings in my zshrc to make it behave more like bash.

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