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Garuda is great. It did get me addicted to the fish shell though and I've since moved back to windows for work reasons and I hate everything now.
Honestly, fish is the only thing I hate about Garuda. The variety of commands is good, but doing any kinda scripting in it physically hurts me. Wish they kinda just stuck with a more conventional shell like zsh.
Feel like most people still do the scripting in Bash for portability reasons, and then just run Fish as the interactive shell
For what it's worth, Debian and most of its derivatives use
dash(a Linux port ofash) instead ofbashfor/bin/sh. It's ~4x faster and uses much less RAM than Bash. Usually the only scripts that use Bash are scripts that aren't POSIX compliant or that use Bash-specific features.I use fish, have never once written a fish script. Just write bash scripts and they tend to work fine, otherwise run em in bash