On 06/17/2020 01:18 PM, Piscium via arch-general wrote: > Today I set dash as my default shell [1] on two PCs. We will see if I > get into trouble. > > This question was asked years ago but maybe good to ask again. Could > dash be made the default shell in Arch? Please NO. Bash has been the default, and while there is nothing wrong with a Bourne-again (or Debian Almquist) type shell, it would break more than a decade of setups... If you want Dash, make the change after install. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.