• boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    Yeah please dont use chsh.

    Zsh may work, dash (which is a faster, smaller reimplementation of bash) may work.

    But fish absolutely doesnt.

    Just because you want to have a nice writing experience, that doesnt mean your whole OS needs a different shell.

    I will experiment with dash though. Ubuntu uses it as the root shell, so it is really well tested.

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      3 months ago

      What do you mean by won’t work? chsh is not changing the shell of the entire OS, it’s changing your users login shell. Unless you’ve done something to make your login break without bash, this is completely fine. Using chsh is even how the Fish docs recommend setting it as your default.

      What Ubuntu did isnt about login shells, they replaced /bin/sh with dash, meaning any scripts that try to use sh will instead use dash.

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      3 months ago

      please dont use chsh

      doesnt mean your whole OS needs a different shell

      chsh just changes the shell when you log in to a shell. all the other shells are still available and usable. any script starting tieh #!/bin/bash will still run with bash, even if you’re using zsh or fish.

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        3 months ago

        Yes bash scripts still work, but I heard there may be other things that randomly break.

        Many things use #!/bin/sh for example, which often is a link to bash, but may not work anymore.

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          3 months ago

          chsh does not modify /bin/sh

          Maybe you’re thinking of a certain video from a certain YouTuber who linked /bin/sh to fish?

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            3 months ago

            Haha no didnt think of that? Hm, I dont know why it would be an issue then. POSIX compliant shells should be no problem, but I wouldnt do it for fish

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              3 months ago

              It will never matter what your login shell, unless you have bash specific scripts in your login. chsh -s /bin/fish $(whoami) is fine.