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Fish is now my go to shell on any system. I once was a die hard zsh/oh-my-zsh user but man running that combo on NixOS was a slog. But Fish has all the stuff I had to use plugins for with zsh right out of the box. faster too.
Yeah, fish is a very comfortable shell in all regards. The standard installation does basically about 90% of what you typically want, probably more. Just very sensible in all aspects