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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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[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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 3 points 1 hour 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.