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Does tmux work well on Windows? Everything Microsoft has been doing recently with bash on Windows has made me consider buying a surface pro as my next machine.

sevensor 10y ago
Tmux came first to cygwin, and now it works on msys2. I don't know about MS-BASH, but MinTTY + msys2 + tmux has been working great for me.
temac 10y ago
tmux works quite well. I'm less sure about the surface pro :p
vmarsy 10y ago
I was a big GNU Screen user on linux, which unfortunately doesn't work on WSL. So I tried tmux, and it works fine for the few minutes I tried it: Create new tabs, detach session, etc. But once you close the Bash primary window, the session dies, so it's not as persistent as running tmux on a Linux machine, which makes sense given how WSL works. I haven't figured out yet if there is a way to always keep WSL running in the background so that I could close the bash terminal, reopen, and reattach my tmux session.
- Senji 10y ago
  Execute tmux as a scheduled task.
fsloth 10y ago
I have Surface Pro 4 i5 and while I personally love it- I can't really recommend it due to various issues (battery life is shit, sleep is bugridden so best to hibernate only). It's uncomfortable as a tablet, and near useless for the main thing ultra light computers are used - traveling a lot. I use it at home. The pros are a really tiny size, yet it packs sufficient computing power for many things, awesome screen. I can use it at a desk or grab it to the sofa - but I need to keep the power adapter handy. If the execution was as flawless as Apple's Ipads are it would probably be the best computer ever (by my subjective scoring which appreciates a pen and sRGB precise screen probably way more than the average user). But as it is - and I'm comparing it to my Ipad pro which makes all the problems stick out like a sore thumb - it's not an obvious recommendation.
- artursapek 10y ago
  It really is annoying that the battery issues are so persistent. That's the main thing that has kept me from even going to a store to check one out. I've been stalking /r/surface and I've been seeing complaints about this for over 6 months. Apparently it's more Intel's fault than Microsoft's, but still very disappointing. I love the form factor and I want to support Microsoft lately.

sevensor 10y ago

Tmux came first to cygwin, and now it works on msys2. I don't know about MS-BASH, but MinTTY + msys2 + tmux has been working great for me.

temac 10y ago

tmux works quite well. I'm less sure about the surface pro :p

vmarsy 10y ago

I was a big GNU Screen user on linux, which unfortunately doesn't work on WSL. So I tried tmux, and it works fine for the few minutes I tried it: Create new tabs, detach session, etc. But once you close the Bash primary window, the session dies, so it's not as persistent as running tmux on a Linux machine, which makes sense given how WSL works. I haven't figured out yet if there is a way to always keep WSL running in the background so that I could close the bash terminal, reopen, and reattach my tmux session.

Senji 10y ago
Execute tmux as a scheduled task.

fsloth 10y ago

I have Surface Pro 4 i5 and while I personally love it- I can't really recommend it due to various issues (battery life is shit, sleep is bugridden so best to hibernate only). It's uncomfortable as a tablet, and near useless for the main thing ultra light computers are used - traveling a lot. I use it at home. The pros are a really tiny size, yet it packs sufficient computing power for many things, awesome screen. I can use it at a desk or grab it to the sofa - but I need to keep the power adapter handy. If the execution was as flawless as Apple's Ipads are it would probably be the best computer ever (by my subjective scoring which appreciates a pen and sRGB precise screen probably way more than the average user). But as it is - and I'm comparing it to my Ipad pro which makes all the problems stick out like a sore thumb - it's not an obvious recommendation.

artursapek 10y ago
It really is annoying that the battery issues are so persistent. That's the main thing that has kept me from even going to a store to check one out. I've been stalking /r/surface and I've been seeing complaints about this for over 6 months. Apparently it's more Intel's fault than Microsoft's, but still very disappointing. I love the form factor and I want to support Microsoft lately.