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Discussion on: Why I am not switching to ZSH

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JC Mallozzi • Edited

Drink the Kool aid! Become one of us. Come over to the dark side. However you want to put it. Long time ZSH user here prob 10+ years. First thing I do on a system that doesn't have zsh, Install zsh, then pull my zshrc file from my server. One you switch, you will never go back. zsh's tab completion and case insensitivity for me makes it the ultimate shell out there, far more superior than bash will ever be. Altho I still write all my shell scrips in bash, I will forever be a zsh user.

Just my 2cents

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Florian Rand • Edited

If tab completion and case insensitivity are your strong points to defend zsh, don't ever dare to try fish shell.

Now in all seriousness, In my opinion, it doesn't matter which one, the important thing is to use whatever makes you comfortable in the command line. I like the 3 of them, all have strong points and weaknesses.

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Jonathan Apodaca

Back when I tried ZSH, I was having trouble with completions: they would randomly stop working. I finally gave up spending the effort hunting the problem down each time. Perhaps it is better now, who knows!

Also, as mentioned above: I regard Bash as only offering slightly less than ZSH, and Bash usually comes by default on the systems I have to remote into. The cost of adopting ZSH is usually too high for me in my case.