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I would like to know other people's habits.

for example, I always close browser windows and only keep a few tabs open at once, and then found out I was weird and many people keep huge amounts of tabs around.

My personal habit is to use bash, and always write shell scripts with #!/bin/sh as the first line.

Thing is - I've haven't tried other shells (since I was a student) because of "linux superstition". Same superstition that chooses filenames without spaces and prevents putting "." in your path.

Thing is - I think maybe decoupling the user interface from the scripting language should be more of a thing. People don't have as much trouble switching out their terminal emulator (a way of taking up the slack).

Maybe the way to a better UI while maintaining compatibility would be to choose a good "user interface" shell and maybe exporting SHELL=/bin/bash so scripts run?




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