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?
Bash, not because its my favourite but because it’s nearly ubiquitous. I don’t want to have to think about which shell I’m using.
Fellow Fish user here! 👋🏻
Fish for interactive shell. “It depends” for scripting, but usually ends up Bash since it is the NixOS default.
zsh because I’ve been using it since college and I don’t like change
Bash. By default it might seem less featureful than zsh… but bash is a lot more powerful and extensible than some give it credit for. It might be more complex to set it up the way you like it, but once you do it, that configuration can be ported over wherever bash exists (ie. almost everywhere).
oksh
PowerShell, because of autocomplete and shift+arrows select.
I often end up in ps because I’m more familiar with it. But only if I have to do some scripting or so.
Bash, just because everything else already uses it. That and bashisms have infected nearly all of my scripts as I clumsily bump into the limitations of POSIX string manipulation.
I have found some very fun things with sed branching patterns as a result of these limitations though…
https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Branching-and-flow-control.html
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I use mainly fish and occasionally nushell.
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.
POSIX on servers, thinking of switching to POSIX on desktop but that’s a bit awkward
Powershell, but heavily customized.
Why the downvotes? Ps is pretty good and it works well on Linux too.
Swisher sweets but backwoods works too
Zsh works for me
Plus oh-my-zsh and the powerline 10k theme - this is my go-to shell.
Pure theme ftw