Fish for interactive shell. “It depends” for scripting, but usually ends up Bash since it is the NixOS default.
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I've recently migrated to nushell, I don't straight up recommend it because it's not POSIX compliant, so unless you're already familiar with some other she'll I would not use it.
That being said, it's an awesome shell if you deal with structured data constantly, and that's something I do quite often so for me it's a great tool.
Just looking at it briefly it looks a lot like PowerShell, any reason to use it over PowerShell?
Never used PowerShell, so I didn't know that it was available for Linux nor open source, since from a quick search both of them seem to be true I guess there's no real reason since both are described very similarly.
I'll probably give it a spin anyway, might be I find some benefit and it looks like an interesting project. Being Rust based instead of C# .NET based could theoretically make it a lot faster (though I've not really had an issue of speed in PowerShell)
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oksh
Bash is my favourite one, second to it being Fish
Bash, zshell, BusyBox....you don't really need anything else
Nushell
I use mainly fish and occasionally nushell.
Bash. By default it might seem less featureful than zsh.. but bash is a lot more powerful and extensible than some give it credit for. It might be more complex to set it up the way you like it, but once you do it, that configuration can be ported over wherever bash exists (ie. almost everywhere).
Bash, just because everything else already uses it. That and bashisms have infected nearly all of my scripts as I clumsily bump into the limitations of POSIX string manipulation.
I have found some very fun things with sed branching patterns as a result of these limitations though...
https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Branching-and-flow-control.html
Bash as it is what I'm most familiar with. Having an eye out on the https://amber-lang.com/ that compiles to bash for future scripting purposes.
I have been enjoying fish a lot over the last few months, but I generally try to use Bash, it makes cross-*NIX administration that much easier.
Zsh with powerlevel10k + a few plugins
zsh because I've been using it since college and I don't like change
zsh with grml config because I'm too lazy to make my own config.
xterm+zsh
PowerShell, with zsh being a close second
Feeling risky today, eh? Mind sharing the reasoning behind your extravagant choice?
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POSIX on servers, thinking of switching to POSIX on desktop but that's a bit awkward
Bash is my login shell, but I have fish set as the default shell for alacritty
Microsoft copilot
Fish & dash.
Zsh on workstations. Bash on servers.