fisher

You've got to install Fisher, then get z, sponge and a few others from the awsm.fish list. Then you get trapped by the utility and struggle when you land on some remote server's bash shell. https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher https://github.com/jorgebucaran/awsm.fish#readme

If you're running a script, you can use edc/bass to run it from a fish shell. Fisher is one of the first things I install after fish, then bass, z and a few other helper plugins. https://github.com/edc/bass https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher

I've used Fish for about 2 years now. Before that I used ZSH for about 6 months. I'm relatively new daily driving Linux. About 3 years. The thing about ZSH that made me jump ship was that even though you can customize it like fish (with Oh My ZSH plugins) ZSH was always slow or didn't display some things correctly. It was frustrating having to wait a few seconds for a command or having things just not work out correctly. Fish, on the other hand, is fast and has a lot of quality of life features like typing part of a command and then serach with the up key. I didn't even install any plugins (I like to Fisher[1]). Also, Fish has gotten me more and more into shell scripting. The docs for Fish are very clear and easy to navigate. I love how you can have custom scripts on the .config folder or abbreviations[2], which I think are superior to al

I switched from zsh/oh-my-zsh to fish mostly because fish does everything I want for an interactive shell and is simply one package from my package manager. With frameworks like oh-my-zsh I'm always worried about supply chain attacks. I do use https://starship.rs (which is also a package away), and I think things like fisher https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher are useful when you need a specific fish script. I also don't really like writing zsh scripts because I always run them through https://www.shellcheck.net which works best with posix sh/bash

I love using oh-my-fish but I honestly think a lot of people have moved to using fisher. Because of OMF's lack of updates. https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher

Regarding the package manager, you should check out https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman

If you like fish but miss the plugin ecosystem of zsh you might be interested in the fish-shell plugin manager, fisherman. I've really been enjoying fish with z and fzf. https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman

asdf [0] is a great alternative to nvm. The best part is that it supports multiple languages and it's fast. I use the plugins for elixir, erlang, nodejs, and ruby. Many CLI tools are missing completions, but I think it's slowly getting better over time. The pros outweigh the cons for me. [0] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf [1] https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman

I've tried bash, zsh, and fish. After trying all three, I'm staying with fish. bash and zsh don't have sensible defaults, and configuring them is tedious. fish works great out of the box, and it's really fast. When I picked up zsh I used oh-my-zsh and later prezto, but it was slow and figuring out what everything all the framework did was complicated. With fish I have a setup.fish script that defines all my universal exports, for when I setup a new computer. This is for private tokens, like HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN. For aliases and utilities, I wrote a fisherman [0] plugin. It has a functions folder and a fishfile for the few other plugins I use. [0] https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman