Is zsh really that great?
by bwgolling from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5FS67)
I'm not sure which forum this belongs in so I picked the most generalized one I could think of.
I am curious what more knowledgeable folks think of zsh over bash. I thought zsh with oh-my-zsh was really a good idea because of all the customization and cool prompts, but then I realized that it was soooo complicated to make adjust as I changed and added or subtracted things as I went along. F'rinstance I really liked the colorized man pages but I figured out how to do the same thing in bash with 2 lines added to .bashrc. I also liked the way I could tab through completions in zsh but once again 2 lines added to .bashrc did basically the same thing.
What I didn't like about zsh was how slow it seemed to be. It takes my system several seconds to start mc in zsh whereas bash it almost instantaneous.
Bash seems to be leaner and cleaner but am I missing something?
I am curious what more knowledgeable folks think of zsh over bash. I thought zsh with oh-my-zsh was really a good idea because of all the customization and cool prompts, but then I realized that it was soooo complicated to make adjust as I changed and added or subtracted things as I went along. F'rinstance I really liked the colorized man pages but I figured out how to do the same thing in bash with 2 lines added to .bashrc. I also liked the way I could tab through completions in zsh but once again 2 lines added to .bashrc did basically the same thing.
What I didn't like about zsh was how slow it seemed to be. It takes my system several seconds to start mc in zsh whereas bash it almost instantaneous.
Bash seems to be leaner and cleaner but am I missing something?