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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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[–] DarkNoul@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Bash is my favourite one, second to it being Fish

[–] sntx@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago
[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Bash, zshell, BusyBox....you don't really need anything else

[–] TheV2@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

I use mainly fish and occasionally nushell.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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).

[–] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Zsh with powerlevel10k + a few plugins

[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Bash as it is what I'm most familiar with. Having an eye out on the https://amber-lang.com/ that compiles to bash for future scripting purposes.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I have been enjoying fish a lot over the last few months, but I generally try to use Bash, it makes cross-*NIX administration that much easier.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

zsh because I've been using it since college and I don't like change

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PowerShell, because of autocomplete and shift+arrows select.

[–] Tovervlag@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

I often end up in ps because I'm more familiar with it. But only if I have to do some scripting or so.

[–] ving_thor@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

zsh with grml config because I'm too lazy to make my own config.

Bash is my login shell, but I have fish set as the default shell for alacritty

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PowerShell, with zsh being a close second

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Feeling risky today, eh? Mind sharing the reasoning behind your extravagant choice?

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[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

POSIX on servers, thinking of switching to POSIX on desktop but that's a bit awkward

[–] MerryChyrsler@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Powershell, but heavily customized.

[–] Tovervlag@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

Why the downvotes? Ps is pretty good and it works well on Linux too.

[–] loppy@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] 69420@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you're conflating shells and terminals.

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