I Tried Out 5 Different Linux Shells, This Is My Experience With Each · The Kernal
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I want you to think about what terminal shell you use, if you haven’t changed it, it is most likely that you use Bash. While Bash is the one that most Linux distro’s use, there are may other shells that have their own unique features. For the purposes of testing, I used 5 different shells, and I am going to give a review of the Bash, Fish, Zsh, Dash, and Ksh Shells.
  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
    8•3 years ago

    Fish is by far my favorite shell at the moment. I find it does contextual autocompletion a lot better than any other shell I’ve tried.

  • @x2ero@feddit.de
    5•3 years ago

    indeed, a very short description for a bunch of shells. Could be more verbose…

  • @newhoa@lemmy.ml
    4•3 years ago

    Fish is my favorite. I can barely do without it. Only downside is some bash commands don’t work on it without modification.

    But I’m also having a ton of fun right now with xonsh which lets you use python and bash together.

    • Lionel C-RA
      1•3 years ago

      The bash scripts incompatibility used to be downside for me as well but I discovered bass and that problem disappeared.

  • erpicht
    3•3 years ago

    As @mieum mentioned, FreeBSD does not ship with zsh by default. The user chooses their preferred shell when setting up: csh, tcsh, and sh are the options.

    Also, there are several distinct versions of ksh. Adding which version (of each shell) you tried would be helpful as well.

  • mieum
    2•3 years ago

    You may know Zsh as the default shell for FreeBSD

    I thought on FreeBSD tcsh was default for root and sh was default for other users. Also never realized anyone used dash as a login shell :b

      • @pingveno@lemmy.ml
        2•3 years ago

        I think the default shell is very distro dependent. Ubuntu-based distros typically use dash, Arch Linux uses bash, and Alpine Linux uses BusyBox’s compiled in ash shell.

      • mieum
        1•3 years ago

        I believe the original Almquist shell is used on FreeBSD. I know on Debian dash is the sh implementation (afterall it is Debian Almquist Shell), but the default login shell for the root user is bash apparently.

        • @hello_lebbit@lemmy.ml
          3•3 years ago

          /bin/sh historically used to be an actual shell(the Bourne shell*), but now by default it points to one set by the distro’s devs. Almquist shell was an alternative developed with a BSD license and i guess its still used