At the moment I'm using zsh with powerlevel10k. But powerlevel10k is not really supported anymore, and seems to be basically on life support. While it still works for now, I have been thinking of switching over to fish. But the lack of posix compatibility is holding me back a bit.
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I have customized ZSH to be very similar to Fish
xterm, because shortcut keys do what they are supposed to.
Edit:
Bash because it's default.
xterm is a terminal emulator, not a shell. Anything that produces a terminal-compatible text stream can be started as the first program.
e.g. xterm -e nano, assuming you have the nano editor installed, has no instance of a traditional shell (e.g. bash, zsh) running between the xterm and the editor, but the editor still works.
You could argue that makes the editor itself a shell of sorts, because it's interactive and you can do things with it, but it's still not the xterm that inherits that title.
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While fish is easy to set up, I can't even be arsed to do that most times, so bash ends up being the one I use most.
Powershell, but heavily customized.
Why the downvotes? Ps is pretty good and it works well on Linux too.
I used zsh, urxvt and konsole. I do prefer zsh. Urxvt is nice too.
I think you're conflating shells and terminals.
I said I prefer zsh. I used terminals like urxvt when I used window managers. Urxvt + zsh works fine. On kde I didn't mind using zsh + konsole. Hope that clears up.
Swisher sweets but backwoods works too
I don't really rate zsh personally. I find the additional features/syntactic sugar it adds are a poor tradeoff for lower portability. I also end up changing the settings in my zshrc to make it behave more like bash.