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I never understand comments like these. Why do you have to twist this to be about "ignorant fan boys"? Not enough drama in the world already?

• ti_ranger 6y ago
  Sorry, but I've read too many posts that say "bash sucks, it doesn't do <thing that bash has done for years before zsh did it> like zsh does".
  • sbarre 6y ago
    And there's a constructive way to respond to those posts, if you must absolutely respond. Yours ain't it.
    • dbtc 6y ago
      Ironic response.
      • sbarre 6y ago
        Fair point
• ti_ranger 6y ago
  Actually, maybe it's more the fact that at a prominent tech company: * zsh is the default shell on a large proportion of servers that have read-only /home, so you can't easily change to your preferred shell * a training guide that many new developers follows states incorrectly that: > If you are using Bash and you have the option of using ZSH, you should switch to it. ZSH has additional auto-complete and history features that Bash doesn’t have (but don't worry - those features will not be relevant to this tutorial.) oh-my-zsh seems to be recommended by a lot of developers in this company, even though: * the default mechanism to install is curl|sh (there is no Homebrew package) on developer machines which have privileged access to a lot of resources * installing it via its recommended installation procedure on dev machines would violate company policies, whereas installing bash-completion wouldn't