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Posted 2025-11-17
From zsh to fish

I'm a longtime zsh user. A colleague introduced me to it in 2009, and I was an instant convert, if nothing else than for directory aliases and simpler $PATH management. Within a couple of years, I discovered oh-my-zsh, which put my shell on steroids, giving me a ton of completion capabilities, better prompts, and more.

But a few years ago, I started noticing that my shell load times were getting worse and worse. At that time, I discovered I could easily switch to vanilla zsh with zplug managing a small number of plugins I used (nvm, fzf, and a few others). I also discovered starship, which gave me more prompt options, with faster startup times.

And yet...

cli fish linux zsh

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