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[Question] Which shell prompt do you use and why?
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Fish, with Starship. It does everything I need it to, completely unmodified. In comparison, zsh barely reached feature parity with a dozen plugins, and I just don't want to spend my time on that
I love fish.
Sometimes I wonder why people think using the terminal is so hard, then every once in a while when I'm not on my home PC and have to use Bash I get reminded of why
I've been meaning to try zsh since it can supposedly do everything fish can while still being posix compliant, but I've never felt the need to not be using fish so I just never got around to it
Same. Its simple, has great autocomplete, and customizeable if you want.
Also a Garuda user?
No
Ah, okay. The reason why I ask is because it ships with starship, and fish is the default shell.
Or, at least, it used to be. I think they might've switched to bash recently. Using Garuda is what got me hooked on fish and starship.
I've been using zsh with oh-my-zsh for almost a decade, but sounds like I might want to try Fish + Starship.
Give it a shot. It's a great shell, but be prepared to learn new things. It works differently in a lot of fundamental ways, but to me they just make sense