I think I'm using fish and it works great, I love alt+s thing and auto complete thingy.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2026
285 points (94.7% liked)
linuxmemes
32172 readers
1641 users here now
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
- Instance-wide TOS: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Lemmy code of conduct: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
2. Be civil
- Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
- Do not harrass or attack users for any reason. This includes using blanket terms, like "every user of thing".
- Don't get baited into back-and-forth insults. We are not animals.
- Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
- Bigotry will not be tolerated.
3. Post Linux-related content
- Including Unix and BSD.
- Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of
sudoin Windows. - No porn, no politics, no trolling or ragebaiting.
- Don't come looking for advice, this is not the right community.
4. No recent reposts
- Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, <loves/tolerates/hates> systemd, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
5. π¬π§ Language/ΡΠ·ΡΠΊ/Sprache
- This is primarily an English-speaking community. π¬π§π¦πΊπΊπΈ
- Comments written in other languages are allowed.
- The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
- Titles and post bodies written in other languages will be allowed, but only as long as the above rule is observed.
6. (NEW!) Regarding public figures
We all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations. - Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement.
- We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated.
- Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed. Β
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
#computerjoke lol
I can't begin to say how superior my fish rice is to any alternative. So I won't. And I'll leave yall to flame me for implying it.
All we ask of you is that you don't reheat it in the employee break room microwave.
The Web site for fish reads:
Finally, a command line shell for the 90s
I love them and always will.
No such thing as a good shell... (I just want something that's both posix-compatible and good)
That's a paradox. POSIX shells are all bad because POSIX demands bad syntax.
You can have pain word strings without also having weird βvariables auto-explode into wordsβ bullshit.
That's why I use nushell. It has lists. You do cmd ...$some_list to call a command on arguments from a list.
Sometimes I think I'm the only linux user who doesn't care about their terminal emulator. I use whatever came installed. I assume it's bash? I don't know, but anything i want to do is supported by all of them.
Akchually, those are shells, not terminal emulators.
Which I guess confirms that you really don't care. Whatever works for you, works for you :)
What's the difference.
How does the virtual terminal factor in.
Why are some shells not login shells
What is a terminal these days and why does it mess up keypresses
The terminal emulator is the window displaying the text. That used to be a physical screen called a terminal. The program that decides what text to show is the shell.
It even kind of suck as a Windows-only shell...
Get-OutOfHere
Powershell is probably simultaneously the best and worst thing Microsoft has ever created
Big oof
Then give nushell a go. It's basically a modern implementation of some of the better ideas Powershell had.
What were those?
load more comments
(1 replies)
Thompson shell (predates Bourne)
scsh (Scheme shell)
sash (stand-alone shell)
gash (Guile shell)
ash (Almquist shell)
dash (Debian Almquist shell)
eshell (Emacs shell)
Shells I couldn't think of images for:
- bosh (from SchilyTools)
- tclsh (Tcl shell)
- ion (from Redox OS)
Thompson shell
load more comments
(3 replies)
As a ham-handed individual , I absolutely LOVE fish shell. Started using it like 3 years ago and never looked back.
How do you deal with when the guide has commands that only work in bash
Run 'bash' and then follow the guide, assuming it's too complex to tweak for fish.
you can run bash scripts in fish. The syntax is bash ./script.sh
Edit: I'm being unhelpful/funny. I just read through the fish manual, and it's so nice and agree that if it was just a bit more bash friendly it would have great uptake
bash:
Jesus Christ! Its json Bourne Again!
That's what they looked like???
load more comments
(5 replies)
imo fish is the best out of the box for me, but I just use bash cause its everywhere
Yeah, that's where this meme fails. BASH is the default and has been for decades. Most people are not Gigachad.
I'll accept FISH as being for babies, Zsh as being for Emo types or extra nerdy people. SH being for white beards makes sense.
BASH is:
I used a macbook for work for a while with zsh in the terminal. IDK whether I qualify as emo, but I am nerdy. I only think of myself as regular nerdy, though, not extra nerdy.
Was zsh the default at the time? Or did you switch to zsh? AFAIK the new default is BASH, but it was zsh for a while.
IMO, your level of nerdiness is much higher if you change the default shell.
I just wish fish would accept standard bash syntax in addition.
Like, if you can warn me that "this is not how we set vars in fish, do this instead!" then you could also just, you know, do it.
I just wish my local restaurant would accept burger orders in addition.
Like, if you can warn me that "this is a Chinese noodle restaurant, we don't do burger here. Order one of these instead!" then you could also just, you know, make me a burger!
you, I like you. Let's bang!
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(8 replies)
I like it (am actually sponsoring) but I'm not sure development is still active. I hope the author finds the time and energy to work on it again it's someone else picks it up
load more comments
(6 replies)
view more: next βΊ