The tmux/iterm2 integration on Macs doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Some people might be better served by moving to a platform with a tiling window manager.

The tmux/iterm2 integration on Macs doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Some people might be better served by moving to a platform with a tiling window manager. The value depends on how you use your computer(s). If you are mostly working locally then something like gnome-terminal is fine. If you only ssh out to machines to run a handful of commands at a time you don't need it. I can rent nice virtual machines anywhere in the world with great network connectivity and a lot of flexibility. Just about any computer can be used as a client. A secure shell and web browser is all I need most days. I can detach from a session and reattach from another machine or even share a session with another person. Changing networks or machines or laptops sleeping doesn't cause everything in my session to get torn down and me having to set it up again. So for me the convenience outweighs the disadvantages. I don't run tmux on machines I only visit to do a bit of maintenance and I don't run it locally. And I only use a subset of the features regularly. But if I am working all day on a remote machine it is very practical.