I use fish, mostly because it is the default on CachyOS
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I use xonsh.
i ws forced to do it recently and noticed that they enforce usage of black terminal, like it is in the command prompt in windows.
it was a pain in the ass to keep switch colors just to touch that one powershell module and my first priority to replacing with with a python equivalent. they still think that the powershell module is being used, but it's no longer capable of working in this environment and they're going to have to spend $$$ to make it useable because i forsee LOT of difficulty and delays in bringing it up to spec.
Nope, I've tried it before but I prefer the muscle memory of bash/zsh.
I'll use it on Windows though.
I do, but only for work. There are certain tasks you can't do easily with just api calls.
Fish is the cachyos default, I used oh my zsh too, I honestly cant tell a difference as a non dev end user
I tried fish before switching to zsh because it has much better compatibility with bash, and I think bash/zsh handles a lot of things like aliases way better. I'm also on CachyOS and the default zsh config with ohmyzsh and powerline10k it comes with is great.
I like autocompetion/suggestions
It's not my default shell on most of my servers but I use it all the time. I'm just not a fan of treating everything as a stream of text to grep, trim and sort into structured data that's easier to work with. Plus, cross platform. I've tried nushell a bit but I always go back to PowerShell.
I have used powershell on windows and Linux and I really like that the data that is moved through a pipe is encapsulated in objects. But in the end I stuck with zsh.
I think you have a surplus apostrophe somewhere... 😏
I dont use powershell.
I use ZSH on My Gaming PC cause its POSIX and and has autocorrect and auto complete also with CachyOS They replicate fish features.
I use the Default good'ol bash on my Laptop running Debian that's on Life support because I dont care.
I tried Fish but didnt like the no POSIX compliance(ik they wanna fix POSIX but its annoying)
My producer and I personally use Bash. We tried zsh, but that didn't treat us very well. Fish is actually pretty nice, though.
nushell is pretty cool
i just wish bash had structured data and basic types, that's it
I use zsh on my work computers and fish on my desktop. Zsh is still POSIX compatible so is more bash-like. Fish is nice. When I use bash or zsh I want to use oh-my-zsh but with fish I haven't found myself wanting anything extra like that.