I’ve never tried anything other than the ol’ reliable bash (with fancy bash prompt to make it look pretty), because none of the alternatives ever really appealed to me.
fish
Tilix and zsh has been nice, since I wanted to make my shell window a bit transparent, like 85% alpha, just like how it looks.
zsh, although I don’t remember why I switched from bash
I personally switched because zsh supports a time tracking software, so I can know how long I’ve been coding… and then never used it for that.
I use simple old Busybox ash, which comes as default with Alpine Linux :)
No fancy features at all, no bashisms. Not everyone’s cup of tea I’m sure, but I like the extreme simplicity.
I used fish for a while and its user experience is awesome! The reason why I stopped using it was that because it is not POSIX compliant it won’t run many bash shell scripts, and I found myself having to open zsh and bash a lot for a class I was taking.
Zsh - IIRC Short scripting is a tiny bit less akward and plugin features like autosuggestions work well. But I have switched a long time ago - not sure how bash really compares
I also always wanted to properly migrate to emacs eshell but it doesn’t have term capabilities (bc it isn’t one) and I have not sat myself down and replaced the workflows I of commands that require it
Bash is the default everywhere on the Linux world.There is nothing that I couldn’t do in bash that made me change the shell, so I keep the “default”
I also use bash for this reason. However, I do find bash programming to be quite obtuse. If I was scripting for myself I would use another shell but I usually script for fleets of servers, so since bash is ubiquitous I just use it and jump to Python for anything conplex
