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I’ve had eza (and formally exa) aliased as ls, ll and lll since around 2015 and never hit a compatibility issue.

I also have sl installed to encourage accuracy when running it…

What is 'sl' ?

Steam Locomotive, an annoying little ASCII art film to punish you for typos. Funny exactly once.

As a Dvorak user, ‘eza’ seems like an improvement! (‘ls’ on a Dvorak layout is ‘p-’ on QWERTY; both keys on the right little finger.)

Can you elaborate on why aliasing is kind of weird?

You can alias it to whatever you want though.

You can, but that's a pain to set up and maintain everywhere. I avoid using aliases for that reason, it just makes me annoyed when I ssh into a machine and it's not there.

I'm not sure the meaning behind the name, but maybe they should have picked `eya` instead, that's nice and satisfying rather than the double pinky move :D

This is where an azerty keyboard shines.

I was a former exa user, and the z is next to x on my keyboard, wasn't a huge hassle for me

`command -v eza >/dev/null && alias ls="eza"`

this was my first reaction too