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Re:Customizing Your Shell by tryptophan on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:58AM (#22899508)
This is why I like fish shell so much. It has the same features as zsh, but requires no config. They have a guiding principle of "if users need to configure something, that means that the defaults are broken".

All I do is "sudo apt install fish" and I'm good to go with the 100s of out-of-the-box improvements it has over bash.

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Re:Customizing Your Shell by RHSeeger on Friday April 17, 2020 @11:17AM (#22899733)
Honestly, this sounds bizarre to me. The idea that everyone likes the same things in a shell makes no sense to me.

I like a 2 line prompt (where am I, what context am I in). A lot of people don't like this at all.

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Re:Customizing Your Shell by SAI_Peregrinus on Friday April 17, 2020 @11:40AM (#22899961)
It's not that config is impossible, but it tries very hard to make the defaults work for the largest subset of users possible. And then provides a much easier config experience than most shells, since if things are broken for you they should damn well be easy to fix!
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