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?

19 points

Bash

Not because it’s the best or even my favourite. Just because I create so many ephemeral VMs and containers that code switching isn’t worth it for me.

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Seconded. Having an awesome Fish setup doesn’t help at all when you’re constantly having to shell into other machines unless you somehow keep your dotfiles synced, and that sounds like a total hassle.

I’d rather my muscle memory be optimized for the standard setup.

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2 points

Exactly, I choose the one that’s always there on every machine I access!

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Fish for an interactive shell, and I’ll often drop back to bash for writing a script. I can never remember how to do basic program flow in fish. Bash scripting is not great, but you can always find an example to remind you of how it goes.

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18 points

zsh

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14 points

Zsh works for me

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Plus oh-my-zsh and the powerline 10k theme - this is my go-to shell.

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Pure theme ftw

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12 points

bash is so ubiquitous that I never considered anything else.

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Don’t try zsh, because you won’t be able to go back to bash after that 😉

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