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I used to be a die-hard Arch user who would never consider even buying a mac. Was given a macbook at an internship and haven't looked back... Well, I have. I love it though. Give it a month to start getting productive though.

As Revell said, Homebrew is a must-have. (Also fish[1], but that applies to Linux too).

[1] http://fishshell.com/

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I've been looking at alternative shells a while back and Fish looked interesting indeed. What made you choose this one over regular Bash and ZSH? Also, how do you deal with incompatibility issues (if any) and different environments (f.e. when SSH-ing to a server)?

I only use Fish interactively. It has really nice autocompletion (which I'm pretty sure reads my mind), and cycling tab completion which I like. Also oh-my-fish[1] is awesome.

Last I checked it was maintained by one guy, meaning support isn't always great.

I still use bash for scripting (can't get away from it) and when compatibility is an issue.

[1] https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish

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