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I'm not sure why everyone goes so crazy over tmux, I've been using screen for 20 years now and it's generally installed everywhere by default, even on remote s
by res0nat0r 6y ago
I'm not sure why everyone goes so crazy over tmux, I've been using screen for 20 years now and it's generally installed everywhere by default, even on remote servers I don't have root on, so I don't have any real reason to switch. 99% of both of these things both do what I need daily, so I usually don't use tmux unless screen doesn't happen to be available for some reason and tmux does. But more power to the devs for wanting to rewrite screen to be more modern with some additional features.
- irateswami 6y agoScreen is incredibly inefficient though.
- res0nat0r 6y agoThat's always been the argument, but it's always been perfectly fine for me. I'm using it to run long running background tasks, or just let me switch between multiple remote hosts patching / debugging them, not to render some kind of HD game.
- mprovost 6y agoAnd yet... I've been using screen for 20 years and it never seemed inefficient, even when running on a 180MHz Pentium Pro. These days I have to believe whatever it's doing must be pretty minor compared to the overall system performance, but I'd be interested in hearing what it does so inefficiently.
- guenthert 6y agoIt worked fine in the early nineties on a '386. I can't tell how efficient it is, because I never had reason to worry about it.
- gbraad 6y agoStill using screen to easily run a background which I can occasionally check up on. Never (perhaps once a year) seem to do this with tmux.
- fl0wenol 6y agoGenuinely curious: In what way? Also: How is tmux about serial ports/USB->serial adapters?