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This looks cool and I could get over my worries about Electron as a terminal except for the fact that it requires that you install something on the remote machi

This looks cool and I could get over my worries about Electron as a terminal except for the fact that it requires that you install something on the remote machine to get any of the benefits. I really don't like that it tried to do that before I had done anything but add a connection (there was no warning or indication that something would be installed). Thankfully (?) FreeBSD is not supported so nothing was installed but I was still surprised that it even tried without some kind of prompting, ideally with "ask me each time" or "install automatically" options. The terminal I use can't go dropping software on boxes I connect to (literally hundreds), I guess I'll stick with iTerm 2.

ytjohn 3y ago
I liken this more to how vscode operates. I use that to develop remotely inside a vdi (or inside a local vm over ssh). It will install an instance of itself on the remote host and then it's like I'm operating "locally" out of that host. For work, I use one vm for all my development. For personal, I have a desktop computer I dedicate to development that I often access remotely via laptop/vscode. But I wouldn't use vscode to connect to all the random hosts I need to throughout, especially if it's going to drop software. Where I might consider a tool like is is if I connected to something along the lines of a jumpbox. Some primary host from which I launch most of my other work out of. Once it opens on that jumpbox, I could then ssh out from there. That would possibly make the session sidebar useless - unless I had a "jumpbox" per client/region/project.
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