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> Most Terminal users might not even notice the shell changed from Bash to ZSH. If that's an argument in favor of ZSH, I think I've missed the point.
by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
> Most Terminal users might not even notice the shell changed from Bash to ZSH.
If that's an argument in favor of ZSH, I think I've missed the point.
- latexr 7y agoIt’s an argument in favour of ZSH over Fish. It will cause less disruption, while providing better features than the current default.
- SomeOldThrow 7y ago> while providing better features than the current default. Barely—it doesn't address any fundamental issues with bash, it's basically a coat of paint. It does make sense that tech companies are only into disruption if they can profit from it.
- Sean1708 7y agoThe point is that apple don't want to update bash because they don't want to ship software that uses GPLv3 but they also don't want to keep shipping a decade old version of bash as the default shell, they aren't doing this because they want to improve on bash or anything like that.