Honestly, fish is the only thing I hate about Garuda. The variety of commands is good, but doing any kinda scripting in it physically hurts me. Wish they kinda just stuck with a more conventional shell like zsh.
still do the scripting in Bash for portability reasons,
For what it’s worth, Debian and most of its derivatives use dash (a Linux port of ash) instead of bash for /bin/sh. It’s ~4x faster and uses much less RAM than Bash. Usually the only scripts that use Bash are scripts that aren’t POSIX compliant or that use Bash-specific features.
The auto suggestion from Fish shell is something I cannot live without anymore. Saves me so much time and avoiding typos. Not sure if zsh can do the same, maybe with a plugin ? If so, I’d like to hear about it. I use zsh for a few things, besides bash and fish to keep their history apart.
Garuda is great. It did get me addicted to the fish shell though and I’ve since moved back to windows for work reasons and I hate everything now.
Install fish shell on all the things!
Fish shell FTW! :) https://fishshell.com/
Honestly, fish is the only thing I hate about Garuda. The variety of commands is good, but doing any kinda scripting in it physically hurts me. Wish they kinda just stuck with a more conventional shell like zsh.
Feel like most people still do the scripting in Bash for portability reasons, and then just run Fish as the interactive shell
I use fish, have never once written a fish script. Just write bash scripts and they tend to work fine, otherwise run em in bash
For what it’s worth, Debian and most of its derivatives use
dash(a Linux port ofash) instead ofbashfor/bin/sh. It’s ~4x faster and uses much less RAM than Bash. Usually the only scripts that use Bash are scripts that aren’t POSIX compliant or that use Bash-specific features.just change it yourself
Possibly a n00b question. What’s the benefit of fish over zsh or bash? Does it provide something extra?
I’m using zsh at the moment.
The auto suggestion from Fish shell is something I cannot live without anymore. Saves me so much time and avoiding typos. Not sure if zsh can do the same, maybe with a plugin ? If so, I’d like to hear about it. I use zsh for a few things, besides bash and fish to keep their history apart.
There IS a plugin for zsh that does exactly that and I’ve been using it without issue for a few months now!
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
Thanks. Got it installed, and works after reading the Debian README :
Last time I checked it’s like zsh but preconfigured and dumbed down. Like the zsh4humans repo, but worse.