I just found out about fish shell a few moments ago. I switched Konsole on KDE to use it instead of bash and am impressed so far. Might install it on the Pihole eventually. Good stuff, just wanted to share. :)
I just found out about fish shell a few moments ago. I switched Konsole on KDE to use it instead of bash and am impressed so far. Might install it on the Pihole eventually. Good stuff, just wanted to share. :)
There is also zsh which has a lot of the great features of fish, especially if parird with something like zimfw.
Another interesting shell is dash
Here’s a list of other shells.
To get most of the good features of fish in zsh you have to install a bunch of plugins. And it’s way slower than fish as well. I used zsh for like 6 years and when I switched to fish (probably in 2018 or 19) I’ve never gone back. Fish is just so much better.
Did you intend to write this part like this?
No I’m really tired and I think I backspaced and fished it up. OK I’m leaving that autocorrect cause it’s funny
Edit: updated and fixed to say “it’s way slower than fish”
Had the opposite experience, fish was way slower than zsh for me.
I have no idea where you guys are seeing any slowness for any shell, but perhaps worth pointing out that fish was recently rewritten (published as version 4.0), so if you are interested in it, might be worth another look.
Yeah could well be, it was some time ago I tried it. I am happy with zsh though, and as always, use what you like.
I had the opposite from you, zsh slow even with a couple plugins (or no plugins). Like, I could see a delay with my naked eye between opening the terminal emulator and the prompt appearing. Not with bash or fish though. 👌
How many plugins do you have? To get the same features that fish has I was seeing multi second loading times with zsh with every plugin system I tried.
“zimfw”
Idk, it could be argued that the ability to add exactly what features you want via plugins might make the shell more minimal and faster. Although most people don’t know what they want and just install everything.
I’d rather have the official shell code add the features I want rather than have to maintain a list of the plugins written by god knows who, that add the functionality I want. Just my own gut feeling, you could call it.