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?

  • lengau@midwest.social
    51·
    2 years ago

    Bash

    Not because it’s the best or even my favourite. Just because I create so many ephemeral VMs and containers that code switching isn’t worth it for me.

  • dinckel@lemmy.world
    39·
    2 years ago

    Definitely fish. It does everything i need out of the box. To achieve the same with zsh, i needed a dozen plugins on top of a plugin manager. Here, in satisfied with just Starship as custom prompt.

    That said, i’ve been trying nushell recently. Don’t really think it’s for me, but it is pretty interesting

  • brenticus@lemmy.world
    231·
    2 years ago

    Honestly? Bash. I tried a bunch a few years back and eventually settled back on bash.

    Fish was really nice in a lot of ways, but the incompatibilities with normal POSIX workflows threw me off regularly. The tradeoff ended up with me moving off of it.

    I liked the extensibility of zsh, except that I found it would get slow with only a few bits from ohmyzsh installed. My terminal did cool things but too slowly for me to find it acceptable.

    Dash was the opposite, too feature light for me to be able to use efficiently. It didn’t even have tab completion. I suffered that week.

    Bash sits in a middle ground of usability, performance, and extensibility that just works for me. It has enough features to work well out of the box, I can add enough in my bashrc to ease some workflows for myself, and it’s basically instantaneous when I open a terminal or run simple commands.

    • piexil@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      while I still use ohmyzsh, a lot of it’s opponents make it’s slowness one of its complaints. You don’t need ohmyzsh to have fancy things, it’s just makes setting it all up a little easier.

  • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
    223·
    2 years ago

    I know I’m a heretic but I’m a huge powershell fan. Once you work with an object-oriented shell you’ll wonder why you’ve dealt with parsing text for so long. Works great on Linux, MacOS and Windows, it’s open source, reads and writes csv, json and xml natively, native web and rest service support, built-in support for remote computing and parallel processing and extensive libraries for just about anything you can think of. It takes a little getting used to but it’s worth it.

    • tankplanker@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 years ago

      I use powershell by default on windows and I prefer it for scripting any day of the week vs. shell scripts. It’s not the fastest but you can always plug in .net to your scripts to dramatically improve performance. Sure, I could write the script in rust or whatever to make it even faster, but that’s way more work than I need for the lifespan of the script.

    • poinck@lemm.ee
      33·
      2 years ago

      Even on Windows I try to avoid Powershell. I use bash through GitBash there, too. But, I don’t mind using Powershell for work, because some workflows are already implemented in ps1-scripts.

    • erwan@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      Don’t try zsh, because you won’t be able to go back to bash after that 😉

  • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    Fish for an interactive shell, and I’ll often drop back to bash for writing a script. I can never remember how to do basic program flow in fish. Bash scripting is not great, but you can always find an example to remind you of how it goes.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
    15·
    2 years ago

    Bash is fine. Zsh on Macs is fine too. I can’t stress how useful it is to learn busybox if you end up with a shell on an embedded device.

    All these crazy shells people talk about are kinda like race car controls. I’m not driving a race car, I’m driving a box truck with three on the tree.

  • MXX53@programming.dev
    15·
    2 years ago

    My job is working with a ton of servers over ssh. Bash is the most convenient balance between features and not needing to do any setup.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
    12·
    2 years ago

    I really like fish because it has excellent contextual autocomplete based on the folder you’re in. I haven’t used any other shell that was as good at it.

  • chrash0@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 years ago

    nushell is excellent for dealing with structured data. it’s also great as a scripting language.

  • rodbiren@midwest.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    Fish, less config and super easy to set things like path, colors, and the support for dev environments and tooling is better than it was. Used to be a Zsh user, but moved since I distro hop so dang much. Less time to get going.