Since ~2015 - wow, almost 10 years ago - I was using zsh + oh-my-zsh, and it was great. But after some years it was becoming show, and since I love to try new things I decided to explore new shell options.

TL/DR: I am using fish now. Why?

• It seems faster, at least in those first days / fresh install
• I was using oh-my-zsh mainly for aliases (e.g. git), but abbreviations are much better for history and share commands.
• Auto complete seems to works better + syntax highlight
• Functions (super easy syntax)
• All the things that I was using continue to work as expected (e.g. mise, zoxide, etc). No reason to not work, but worth to mention
• Saw others moving from zsh to fish, it seems a natural moving
• 11 reasons here

Super quick start

# Install fish on OSX
brew install fish

# Add it to possible terminals
code /etc/shells
# Manually add /opt/homebrew/bin/fish (ok, could do it with echo but choose not to)

# Change default terminal
chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/fish

# Have fun

Customizations

• I installed fisher to add extensions, but didn't find a need for it yet. Auto pair is the only one active
  • fish-abbreviation-tips is great, but since switched aliases for abbreviations it doesn't make sense anymore.
• For themes and colors I was using starship. Decided to stick on it for now, configs here.
• Abbreviations! You can create it even for parameters and can edit the commands prior to execute.

Next

• Join reddit group
• Take a look on fisher plugins, github repos, etc
• Add a star in the fish-shell repo