openSUSE & zsh all the way! ;) In all seriousness, though, my setup is a wee bit unusual for somebody who isn't a programmer, since I work exclusively in emacs

openSUSE & zsh all the way! ;) In all seriousness, though, my setup is a wee bit unusual for somebody who isn't a programmer, since I work exclusively in emacs via LaTeX & org-mode, stuffing all of it into git, on a openSUSE system, zsh as my standard shell, i3 as my window manager etc. The thing is, I do have a script for example to push the current git project to various remote repositories or to create a new empty remote repository on those servers, set it up locally etc. But there are few other things that need to be scripted. I'm sure some of my things violate all kinds of sensible programming standards, but they do work (e.g. looping through shell arguments and then using case "$1" instead of using getopts, because it only allows long arguments in a hackish way). The problem, essentially, is that of the plateau. If I wanted to do something that pushes things further, I'd need a real project, not the odd, occasional shell script. But for that, I lack the motivation, since, after all, it's not really what I should be doing. It's a bit of a circular problem. edit: My "job" is studying literature.