Interesting, I never heard of setting your shell in the emulator config. I just used ‘chsh’ once when I setup the install.
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.
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.
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 will still run with bash, even if you’re using zsh or fish.
Yes bash scripts still work, but I heard there may be other things that randomly break.
Many things use for example, which often is a link to bash, but may not work anymore.
