I am fairly familiar with Linux, I’ve been using different distros for some years now and have done some config editing here and there. I am also a web developer and use the terminal quite a lot and so I always stumble on people’s recommendation to use tmux and how good it is, but I never really understood what it does and, in layman’s terms, how can it be useful and for what use cases.

Can you guys please enlight me a bit on this?

Thank you.

Edit: if my phrasing is a bit awkward or confusing I apologize since I am not an English native speaker. (Maybe that’s why I never fully grasped what tmux is from other explanations xD)

Edite: Ok, just to clarify, my original struggle was to understand what made tmux different from using some terminal app and just split the screen xD

    • spauldo@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeesh, I never knew about that. Probably because I normally only worry about SIGHUP on *BSD.

      What kind of arrogance does it take to just decide to change how signals work?

    • deejay4am@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Ugh I remembering learning upstart and getting decent with it and then everyone went “nope, systemd”

      Let’s just improve what we have and not change the whole goddamn thing again. That’s more annoying.

      Also, some of the people on hackernews are so cringy. Like, dude we get it there is a bad default. Make your case and stop being a total jerkoff, because no one is going to listen to that guy and I bet that’s like 20% of the reason the other übernerds are digging their heels in about changing it.

      Also fuck systemd 😅