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Or any other alternate shells that aren't bash?

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[–] DichotoDeezNutz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Nope, I've tried it before but I prefer the muscle memory of bash/zsh.

I'll use it on Windows though.

[–] disco@lemdro.id 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

What's wrong with bash? Something missing or not to your liking? It can be configured

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Maybe it can, but with fish, it does what I want right out of the box, and I don't have to spend time configuring it.

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[–] dil@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Fish is the cachyos default, I used oh my zsh too, I honestly cant tell a difference as a non dev end user

[–] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I tried fish before switching to zsh because it has much better compatibility with bash, and I think bash/zsh handles a lot of things like aliases way better. I'm also on CachyOS and the default zsh config with ohmyzsh and powerline10k it comes with is great.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

I like autocompetion/suggestions

[–] jaypg@lemmy.jaypg.pw 4 points 4 days ago

It's not my default shell on most of my servers but I use it all the time. I'm just not a fan of treating everything as a stream of text to grep, trim and sort into structured data that's easier to work with. Plus, cross platform. I've tried nushell a bit but I always go back to PowerShell.

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

nushell is pretty cool

[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I have used powershell on windows and Linux and I really like that the data that is moved through a pipe is encapsulated in objects. But in the end I stuck with zsh.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I think you have a surplus apostrophe somewhere... 😏

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I dont use powershell.
I use ZSH on My Gaming PC cause its POSIX and and has autocorrect and auto complete also with CachyOS They replicate fish features.
I use the Default good'ol bash on my Laptop running Debian that's on Life support because I dont care.
I tried Fish but didnt like the no POSIX compliance(ik they wanna fix POSIX but its annoying)

[–] mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online 3 points 4 days ago

My producer and I personally use Bash. We tried zsh, but that didn't treat us very well. Fish is actually pretty nice, though.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I do, but only for work. There are certain tasks you can't do easily with just api calls.

[–] surrealpartisan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I use xonsh.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

i just wish bash had structured data and basic types, that's it

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

I use zsh on my work computers and fish on my desktop. Zsh is still POSIX compatible so is more bash-like. Fish is nice. When I use bash or zsh I want to use oh-my-zsh but with fish I haven't found myself wanting anything extra like that.

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