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I just found out about fish shell a few moments ago. I switched Konsole on KDE to use it instead of bash and am impressed so far. Might install it on the Pihole eventually. Good stuff, just wanted to share. :)

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[–] CubitOom 21 points 1 week ago (10 children)

There is also zsh which has a lot of the great features of fish, especially if parird with something like zimfw.

Another interesting shell is dash

Here's a list of other shells.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

To get most of the good features of fish in zsh you have to install a bunch of plugins. And it’s way slower than fish as well. I used zsh for like 6 years and when I switched to fish (probably in 2018 or 19) I’ve never gone back. Fish is just so much better.

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

since I switched to NixOS I'm finding this out now. Prior to this every Distro I was on I used zsh/oh my zsh because I'm a dummy and need the autosuggestions, autocomplete, syntax highlighting etc and it was quick, no issues.

Now that i'm on Nix zsh is slow to get to a prompt. logging in via tty takes 2-5 seconds to hit a prompt, in a terminal about the same. maybe I set up my nix config wrong, I don't know. I'm only loading those three pluggins and I've boiled it down to the autosuggestions and or autocomplete.

It might just be a conflict with NixOS' auto suggestsions/complete thing (likely is) but if Fish or Nushell has the same 3 features I need because, again, i'm a dummy then I'd happily switch.

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