>he doesn't set dash as his system shell

Why would I do something like that?

I prefer fish

This isn't even a supported usecase btw. It's only still on the system for sysv init script compatibility and maintainers' random crimes against computing instead of patching properly.

>>105704664 (OP)
You would use fish if you even cared.

>>105704882
>>105705619
>>105705694
by system shell I don't mean the interactive shell, I mean the shell that runs scripts in the background. I use zsh as my interactive.

I use dash with fish

>>105704882
>distrotube uses fish shell because it has a little animated aquarium that amuses him and he thinks it's interesting to be contrarian for no reason

>i'm so cool i don't care about posix compliant shells, i just use whatever i want, mine has a little fish that swims through my terminal

>>105705766
Isn't that default on every system? How would you even change that?

>>105706344
by default it's bash.

>>105706430
huh, my main distro is Debian and on here it's default.

>>105706085
That just makes him sound based

>>105704664 (OP)
I refuse to learn what is a bash extension and what is not.

>>105706480
Dash is the default sh on Debian and Debian-based distros because they explicitly made the decision to use Dash (hence the 'D' in Dash; it stands for Debian). Most Linux distros use Bash by default for both system and interactive shells.

>>105704664 (OP)
>he's not gay

So, what's the practical difference?

For me it's busybox (a)sh.

>>105709298
Dash is smaller and faster, but doesn't support some convenience features offered by Bash.

>>105704664 (OP)
I use busybox everywhere

>>105710729
I've never used bash and thought "wow, this is too fucking slow for my use case." Seems like a waste of time to learn a new shell if there's no concrete benefit.

>>105712001
>I've never used bash and thought "wow, this is too fucking slow for my use case."
It's for the myriad of scripts that run on startup. Using Dash instead of Bash apparently makes a noticeable difference.

>>105706085
I don't know about whatever eceleb you're talking about but I use fish BECAUSE it's not posix compatible.
Posix is shit.

>>105704882
same with fzf, z and tide
I don't need anything else, superbased.

dash is a relic from back when boot times were bottlenecked by sysvinit. there's no reason to not just use bash for system shell on loonix anymore

>>105714361
Boot times were never bottlenecked by init.
Although, if you’re rebooting more than once a year you’re a retard anyway.
We had 3 and 4 year uptime on XP for Chris's sakes. Do likewise gents.
Boot times with systemd are way up over what it used to be. Bait and switched.
Unix system() std library call runs everything under the system shell, and that’s a lot of unnecessary shit if you’re running the bash shell.

I’m running the original Bourne shell from BSD sources compiled with pcc and tcsh for interactive shell like god intended.
> b-b-but csh considered harmful
All fixed decades ago. Besides, all scripting is done with ‘sh’ anyway.

it was preinstalled on my machine

>>105704664 (OP)
Yeah, I'm using powershell instead, on windows 11 and Linux btw