Currently using zsh but I installed fish yesterday to try it out because I'm thinking of switching. All the zsh plugins I have are basically just replicating what fish has by default anyway and fish might do it better.

what’s fish got? I’m liking zsh here but am always open to a distraction instead of getting work done. :)

It's time for a nushell

It's actually windows

It's actually not Unix-like.

Classic linux tribalism. Use what you like and don't get involved with these confrontational nerds.

It's permissively-licensed (as opposed to bash, which is GPLv3). Pushing zsh over bash is part of a larger effort by corporations to marginalize copyleft so they can more easily exploit Free Software at the users' expense. Don't fall for it!

It's better.

But I'm a compliant little bitch for POSIX daddy

Fish is for people who like it when sometimes scripts don't work

I would really recommend you try fish.

It has a lot of nice autocomplete features and handles functions much better than bash. It has a very sensible autoconfig so you can just install and try it.

Zsh can be configured in quite a lot of ways. It's default config is quite similar to bash.

Features and default settings, but its really just about preference. They are all good at what they do.

Also im only saying this because it confused me for so long, but shell and terminal are different parts of the same thing. Bash is your shell, its the backend that runs everything you type into your terminal. My computer for example uses my kitty terminal which communicates in bash. You can change both the shell and terminal. Zsh is another shell, so it would change the "shell language" you use to communicate with your terminal.

There can be a ton of reasons, albeit I personally also just stick with default (for me zsh). In typical linux user fashion I also must tell you that bash and zsh are shells, not terminals.

The two main reasons you'd choose a particular shell is because you prefer it's configurability or syntax. Zsh has a bunch of features that you can enable and you can configure it to behave basically however you want, like adding spelling correction or multiline editing, but it's defaults absolutely suck unless your distro comes with a sensible config. Fish, which another guy here's raved about, goes in basically the opposite direction and is really nice to use out of the box (I haven't used it though). I hear it's technically not a valid /bin/sh substitute like zsh or bash because of syntactic differences, but that'd be a whole other rabbit hole if true.

One other reason can be performance concerns because bash is pretty slow when treated as a programming language, but I'd argue you shouldn't organize your workflow so that bash is a performance bottleneck.