No, my bash is mostly the default that Debian provides (only semi-relevant option I have enabled is globstar, which is just the recursive globbing). I guess I didn't mean that zsh wasn't that much better, just that I didn't think it was that much better.

I may switch to zsh eventually, but I just switched shells and I don't really want to do it again very soon.

Debian uses dash actually, not bash. I rather prefer it that way since dash is strictly POSIX compliant. Takes some of the tediousness out of creating portable shell scripts.

/bin/sh on debian is dash, but the default interactive shell is still bash (sorry for nitpicking).

Debian uses dash as /bin/sh, but newly-created accounts default to /bin/bash as their login shell.