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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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zsh or fish for an intermediate Linux user? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I've been using Linux now for a while, and am looking to migrate my dev environment to vim and spend more time in the command line. I'm fairly comfortable with bash but by no means an expert. I've used zsh with some minor customization but just recently learned about fish. I'd love to hear people's opinions.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I use Linux for work and I'm pretty much fully in bash. What's the benefit of changing to a different shell? Will all my scripts still work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I made myself this question and jumped to fish and never came back to bash. I now use mostly the terminal for most things together with ranger.

If you decide to jump to fish install fish + fisherman + fzf

Fisherman for installing themes and plugins and with it you install the fzf plugin. I also have the tide theme which is pretty nice.

PS. Bash scripts still run as bash so there is no conflict.

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