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Fish (suggested by the article as well) is amazing. Also:
But honestly, lots of classics are still great: git, htop, rsync, vim, nano, ....
I'm usually a bit scornful of "bling" commands, but bat seems genuinely useful.
Agreed. Many on this list, to me, seem too busy or an outright eyesore (btop). But bat does appear truly useful. I'll be giving that one a try.
Be careful not to replace bash with fish as some systems fail to work with new shell. I usually init fish/nu shells with other instruments, like alacritty and/or zellij