I was a casual tmux user until I got stuck in a portable trailer in Dubai working for DEWA on their grid, and they had us using a janky remote terminal Remote D

I was a casual tmux user until I got stuck in a portable trailer in Dubai working for DEWA on their grid, and they had us using a janky remote terminal Remote Desktop setup that didn't have any form of mouse pass through to the linux terminals we were doing work on. So - copy/paste were not possible which made work a pain. I gave them a DVD (!) containing the various ncurses/libevent/tmux code - and voila - I finally had a working environment. I spent 2+ months in that trailer for 6-8 hours/day - and tmux became so embedded in my finger DNA, I never looked back. I routinely bounce between WSL, Linux, and MacOS and never have to remember any of the keyboard shortcuts for the terminal programs, or whether it's been installed, and my fingers never leave the keyboard - and I can almost always outperform someone trying to select/copy with a mouse/touch pad. My .tmux.conf is the only thing I pull along with me. Also - just thinking about it - tmux is more than just a windowing environment - it also does project management. I have a workflow where every new project/issue/incident gets its own named window - and then I break up that window into a set of 4-8 panes based on systems (or sets of systems) I'll be working on. They all share the same bash_history. As I get hit with interrupts, I bounce between sessions and when I come back - my whole thought process/work history is back in that named window with panes. It's not unusual for me to have 45-50 open panes at a time - all perfectly organized by project/named window. With the resurrect plugin, and intelligent use of my bash config - I can (and do) pull everything (scroll back history, bash history, etc..) onto another system if needed (great if you need to recreate your work history and you no longer have access to the original terminal environment). As I close off/complete projects, I terminate the window - but the bash history is kept clean in ~/.tmux/bash_history/window_name in case I ever need to start working on it again (recreating the window with the same name pulls back in the bash history) Introspecting here a little, this honestly is probably more a function of me spending 40+ hours in a terminal environment than anything a rationale casual user would ever want to do.