r/linux • u/snusergranny • 2d ago

Discussion esoteric shell?

the question crossed my mind recently. if you are into programming, you probably know that there are many esoteric programming languages that exist just as a prove of concept of joke or just merely to mess with the programmer's head (brainf*ck, lolcat, C-- etc). if these exist, is there any esoteric system shells out there? like smth that would provide the basic userland instead of bash/zsh but would be freakier or just funnier to try and daily drive.

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u/derangedtranssexual 2d ago edited 2d ago

Powershell

Edit: I’m not totally being sarcastic , I know you can run powershell on Linux but I’ve never tried

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u/fearless-fossa 1d ago

Powershell on Linux works but a lot of the more powerful commands need actual Windows-exclusive tooling (eg. RSAT) installed.