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Fish is Like Bash With a Brain — Here’s How to Try it on Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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[-] lemmyman210@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 days ago

Zsh is also pretty good!

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

That's what I currently use but I've tested fsh a little and was potentially looking to move. I just have to pull the trigger and see if I regret it or not.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

I went from bash to zsh to fish.

  1. I understood bash. Manual is good, searchable, understandable.
  2. I never understood zsh. Manual is split up in several different man pages, very annoying to find what you're looking for. I never ever understood what I was doing, config wise. Just blindly following convoluted how-to's.
  3. With fish, I finally understand every aspect of my shell again, and it's like 10x simpler than bash. Can be learned completely within 30 minutes or so.

Highly recommend the switch.

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