• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    I switched from bash to zsh a while ago, mostly just for shits and giggles. I really can’t see any reason to form a strong opinion on it one way or the other.

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      9 hours ago

      Bash is copyleft (GPLv3). Zsh is permissively-licensed.

      Apple, for instance, switched from bash to zsh when the GPL version upgraded because they wanted to withhold those rights from their users.

      Zsh should be considered harmful as a tool of corporate encroachment and subjugation of Free Software.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      I went from bash to fish to zsh. I can see why people would like having fish as a shell. but I hated scripting on it and if I’m going to be triggering a different shell for scripts anyway, I might as well skip the middleman, not re-invent the wheel and just use zsh with plug-ins that way I only have two shells installed instead of three. Adding the auto-complete plugin and a theme plugin for zsh gives most of fishes base functionality and design while making it so I don’t nerd to worry about compatibility.

      Maybe someday when I’m less code oriented, I will re-look at fish, but I don’t see it happening in the foreseeable future.