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Would you say it's worth switching to/learning zsh itself? My default has been /bin/bash for years and years and I find I'm too slow while I'm trying to learn zsh.

Plus, if you spin up an image on EC2 or DigitalOcean, the default will be bash.

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I recently installed fish shell after about 15 years of bash usage. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to bash on my PC.

I never really customized bash, and fish has so good defaults that I don’t think I'll customize it much.

Web site: http://fishshell.com/

Here is the thing. Bash is the default on most of the servers you are going to have to work on,. Centos, RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Arch,. etc. So knowing and using Bash is kind of like knowing English in the business world.

Of course, don't let that detract from the usefulness of other shells out there. They can be fun and educational.

Wow. Just looked at the fish docs and it takes the two reasons I almost started using zsh/omz for, syntax highlighting and completion, and by the looks of it blows the zsh versions out of the water.

The completion is excellent. It just works.

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