I’ve never tried anything other than the ol’ reliable bash (with fancy bash prompt to make it look pretty), because none of the alternatives ever really appealed to me.
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
I use zsh for no particular reason. At work I use bash.
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.
fish + starship. I don’t script with it, but it has really great autocompletion and history out of the box.
I also use .tmux
I use zsh, because I think p10k looks cool
I’m using
zshwith thestarshipprompt and ZSH autosuggestions.zsh with autosuggestions and syntax-highlighting. I really only went with zsh because default bash kept messing up the text randomly when using a custom terminal prompt. On Servers I SSH into I just keep bash around though.
fish
I typically use the system default, which on my systems comes out to bash, ksh, or tcsh. I guess I should give a shout-out to Emacs’ eshell as well, it’s nice to have available.
Fish
Back when I used KISS Linux I used ash (symlink to sh) but now that I moved to Fedora I use bash.
KISS Linux looks fascinating. What do you think of it?
It’s amazing. The thing I most liked from it was the local repos and the build instructions, they were so simple compared to the build instructions of other distros (like Gentoo or Alpine) that I actually made some for packages I used, like GLFW.
It’s also really minimalist, which allows you to know your system from back to front easily. My biggest problem with it was the low package count (due to the low number of users, since it’s a really niche distro, that’s expected to be fair.) and that sometimes packages failed to build (also due to the low number of users.)
I totally recommend it if you are into minimalism, building your own stuff and customization. You can also check the packages in the kisscommunity page, the IRC channel is very helpful too!
I am glad to hear such a positive report! It looks like a great distro, so I’ll try it out and see if it works for me :)
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, see no point in changing
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.
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.
