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Do many people do bash on osx or zsh on Linux, and would this make much of a difference?

I don't know about "use" — luckily, there's no opt-out telemetry — but enough of "enthusiast distribution" users who have also opted in (very biased sample) have explicitly installed zsh (not necessarily run it)

https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/compare/packages#packages=bash...

OTOH, it's only 4-7% on Debian (also opt-in):

https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=zsh

I use zsh at work and bash at home. I am such an unsophisticated user that I haven't noticed a real difference! Other than I can install ohmyzsh on zsh.

I repeat the different variations of the same command so often that I get a large quality of life improvement by making that easier- that's why I take the trouble to install zsh.

Why does this type of statistic require an opt-in solution? Can't the Arch mirrors just tally requests for each package without identifying information like IP adddress?

Maybe they can’t ask for info on every mirror.

Regrettably due to the licensing stupidity there's actually two bash on macOS: /bin/bash and $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin/bash they do differ (as is expected by a two major version spread)

I'm firmly in the never-zsh camp, but I'd guess so long as one doesn't do something silly like use #!/bin/zsh in shared scripts you can continue to use whatever interactive shell you like

I had a college who was hard core into fish but had to be completely self sufficient because he was the only user in the office. I presume it's the same as being on Linux in a Windows shop or being on Windows in a macOS shop: no one has the day to day experience to have the answers handy

Homebrew bash is my default shell on macOS.

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