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What shell are y'all using?
(lemmygrad.ml)
fish
zsh, although I don't remember why I switched from bash
I personally switched because zsh supports a time tracking software, so I can know how long I've been coding... and then never used it for that.
Tilix and zsh has been nice, since I wanted to make my shell window a bit transparent, like 85% alpha, just like how it looks.
I use simple old Busybox ash, which comes as default with Alpine Linux :)
No fancy features at all, no bashisms. Not everyone's cup of tea I'm sure, but I like the extreme simplicity.
I used fish for a while and its user experience is awesome! The reason why I stopped using it was that because it is not POSIX compliant it won't run many bash shell scripts, and I found myself having to open zsh and bash a lot for a class I was taking.
Bash is the default everywhere on the Linux world.There is nothing that I couldn't do in bash that made me change the shell, so I keep the "default"
I also use bash for this reason. However, I do find bash programming to be quite obtuse. If I was scripting for myself I would use another shell but I usually script for fleets of servers, so since bash is ubiquitous I just use it and jump to Python for anything conplex
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