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I always want to try alternative shells but I always come back to bash. I think Fish had the longest residency. I have yet to find the killer reason to never co
by wirthjason 5y ago
I always want to try alternative shells but I always come back to bash. I think Fish had the longest residency. I have yet to find the killer reason to never come back.
It’s a bit like programming languages. So much cool stuff out there but it’s hard for me to leave Python. Like Bash, everything works with it.
I’m curious what people’s “killer apps” are for permanently changing shells.
- arsome 5y agomosh isn't an alternative shell, it's sort of like "rsh" or "ssh" except designed for mobile... and using SSH for authentication and session setup.
- edgyquant 5y agoI have this same problem. I’ve tried fish and zsh but all my scripts are in bash and over the years I’ve honed an environment I can just git clone to any Linux machine and it works