Fish for interactive shell. “It depends” for scripting, but usually ends up Bash since it is the NixOS default.
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Bash is my favourite one, second to it being Fish
Bash, zshell, BusyBox....you don't really need anything else
Nushell
I use mainly fish and occasionally nushell.
Bash. By default it might seem less featureful than zsh.. but bash is a lot more powerful and extensible than some give it credit for. It might be more complex to set it up the way you like it, but once you do it, that configuration can be ported over wherever bash exists (ie. almost everywhere).
Bash as it is what I'm most familiar with. Having an eye out on the https://amber-lang.com/ that compiles to bash for future scripting purposes.
Bash, just because everything else already uses it. That and bashisms have infected nearly all of my scripts as I clumsily bump into the limitations of POSIX string manipulation.
I have found some very fun things with sed branching patterns as a result of these limitations though...
https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Branching-and-flow-control.html
zsh because I've been using it since college and I don't like change
Zsh with powerlevel10k + a few plugins
Bash is my login shell, but I have fish set as the default shell for alacritty
zsh with grml config because I'm too lazy to make my own config.
xterm+zsh
PowerShell, with zsh being a close second
Feeling risky today, eh? Mind sharing the reasoning behind your extravagant choice?
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PowerShell, because of autocomplete and shift+arrows select.
I often end up in ps because I'm more familiar with it. But only if I have to do some scripting or so.
POSIX on servers, thinking of switching to POSIX on desktop but that's a bit awkward
I have been enjoying fish a lot over the last few months, but I generally try to use Bash, it makes cross-*NIX administration that much easier.
Microsoft copilot
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.