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. :)

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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      And it’s way slower than zsh as well.

      Did you intend to write this part like this?

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        4 months ago

        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”

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        4 months ago

        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.

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          4 months ago

          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.

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        4 months ago

        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. 👌

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        4 months ago

        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.