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I love shell tools, and by no means disparage the use of zoxide, z, etc. But I find I get 90% of the usefulness of these tools using the native cd command and adding my most used directories to CDPATH.

This additionally is consistent and works without needing to “train” it first.

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I agree, but I get 100% of the usefulness of these tools by installing them with one command and using them. Why settle for 90% when 100% takes a second?

Fair point. I don't disagree. I personally just like to stay as close to default GNU/Linux tooling as is practical. It's a matter of personal taste.

For me, this makes it so my expectations and muscle memory transfer cleanly between my workstation and other servers, devices, etc. I find the default tools are much more powerful than is often understood, and you can replicate most third party functionality fairly easily. That's not always the case mind you, and I happily use those tools.

I used to agree, but nowadays my thinking is "I use my own machines 99.99% of the time, why optimize for the 0.01%?".

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