I use Bash and I’m open to people explaining why a different shell would make a difference for me, unless it’s a matter of preference? For instance I’m not a huge Arch zealot, but by now I know all the pacman commands and I don’t see the point of switching.

happy fish user :)

BASH because I’m still not very good at it and I’m scared of using other non-defaults lol

I use bash because it’s the default and the alternatives are not that much better that it’s worth switching.

when writing scripts, I mostly use Bash or posix sh, but I recently switched from Zsh to Fish for other uses. Also interested in how Nu is developing

Let me tell you about xonsh.

It’s a modern full python programmable shell and it’s awesome! I’ve been using it for 2 years now and while it has some support issues having a full-blown python in your shell is just so convenient!
There are lot of brilliant UNIX tools like grep, jq etc. however often I find myself in a place where I feel I could write 2 lines of python faster and easier than researching and messing around with processing tool such as jq — if you get this feeling than xonsh is the shell for you!

Example of common use case, renaming files:

$ ls                                                                                                                  
bar.md  foo.md dir/gar.md
$ for file in Path().glob('*'): $[mv @(file) @(file.name + '.bak')]                                                   
$ ls                                                                                                                  
bar.md.bak  foo.md.bak dir/gar.md.bak

Here we glob through files recursively and suffix .bak to every one of them.

Xonsh gives you a lot of flexibility in your shell and you should give it a go. There’s a web-based playground on https://xon.sh homepage that you can spin up to try xonsh hassle-free!

Started off using zsh pretty early-on, then went back to bash up until about a month ago when I decided to check out fish.

I use fish mainly because it has contextual autocomplete based on the folder.

Gnu Bash. Tend to use the defaults on my system (Fedora), since I prefer to spend my time doing work and not fidgeting with various system tweaks. 😈

I also use bash - I tried zsh, but there was a startup delay I couldn’t stand.

Plus, bash has a lot of features that you just need to turn on (mostly using shopt) - things like autocd, cdspell/dirspell, cmdhist, direxpand, extglob, globstar, histappend, should probably just be on by default these days, as well as a HISTTIMEFORMAT that includes date and time.

bash, I use for loop, stdin/out redirection and conditional operator somewhat often and I put them in script if I use a snippet a lot

zsh with starship as my prompt. on my main PC it looks like this:

sort of not related because it’s shell-agnostic, but I really like starship because it has a bunch of cool plugins. e.g. at work, I have k8s and AWS plugins enabled, so it looks like this:

fish all the way!

zsh/fish depending on which computer

zsh