Not that I don’t still love using linux daily, but it is getting a little old having to search for how to do anything even just install a simple program (recently, had a. Deb file to install unifi software that wouldn’t install and had to find a custom script to do it).
I feel like there’s no way I’d ever learn all the random commands I’ve been copying and pasting (and keeping in a text file for later) and can’t help but feel it’s kind of clunky. And I don’t feel like I really know anything of what Im doing. Even man pages baffle me. I’ve been into computing for 20 years but only used linux a little like 8 years ago, but now it’s been my main os on my desktops for probably 2 months. I know, maybe that’s just not long enough. I just don’t like the fact that if I couldn’t search, I’d be completely stuck on a lot of tasks.
I do have tldr and fish and love it ! Although I get a little annoyed that my aliases from bash didn’t carry over into fish because I sometimes forget to launch fish since I almost always use the ctrl alt t shortcut to launch term
You can change your default shell in a few ways. I’ve never used fish, but
vipwshould open yourpasswdfile, in which you can change/bin/bashto the appropriate path for fish (which you can find viawhich fish). It’s probably best to only change this for your user.A possibly simpler option (and one that I don’t believe requires root access) is the
chshcommand. I’ve never used it myself, so I’ll let this site provide instructions for it: https://www.howtogeek.com/669835/how-to-change-your-default-shell-on-linux-with-chsh/Article by a Red Hat engineer that also makes a ton of contributions to FOSS in their free time: Don’t change your login shell, use a modern terminal emulator
Interesting, I hadn’t heard that take. I’ll give it a read. Thanks!
My pleasure fam! Btw, I’m in no place to dictate what’s right or wrong (or whatsoever). I just wanted to add their perspective on the matter*.