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Re:s/bash/zsh/g by revscat on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:01PM (#28933084)
I used fish for around a year and a half and wound up switching back to zsh. fish's startup time is way too long for my tastes, and the devs seem completely uninterested in providing a "don't load plugins" flag. I open up new tmux panes/windows/etc all the time, so fish's slowness here is really noticeable. It also negatively affects using things like `tmux popup`, which spawns a shell. Things like this that take no noticeable time under zsh are sluggish under fish.
Re:s/bash/zsh/g by acdha on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:13PM (#28933221)
Interesting — I picked fish because it was so much faster than zsh but I also run it pretty lean without much in the way of plugins.