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.
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 #!/bin/bash will still run with bash, even if you’re using zsh or fish.
Fish shell
You can change the used shell in the configs. At least for Alacritty, when I used it (dont care, it was still kinda broken, I just use Konsole)
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.
Thanks for the heads up.
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
#!/bin/bashwill 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
#!/bin/shfor example, which often is a link to bash, but may not work anymore.chsh does not modify /bin/sh
Maybe you’re thinking of a certain video from a certain YouTuber who linked /bin/sh to fish?
Haha no didnt think of that? Hm, I dont know why it would be an issue then. POSIX compliant shells should be no problem, but I wouldnt do it for fish
It will never matter what your login shell, unless you have bash specific scripts in your login.
chsh -s /bin/fish $(whoami)is fine.