Tab completion alone is a good reason to switch. bash completes only filenames most of the time even with a bunch of third party completion scripts. Meanwhile,

Tab completion alone is a good reason to switch. bash completes only filenames most of the time even with a bunch of third party completion scripts. Meanwhile, zsh provides smarter completion as part of its default installation, which you can enable with this 3 line configuration: autoload -Uz compinit; compinit setopt menu_complete zstyle ':completion:*' menu select