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And people wonder why Linux never became mainstream for consumers.

techwizrd 13y ago
This is for installing tmux in Cygwin on Windows. Installing tmux in Ubuntu is as simple as searching and installing tmux from the Ubuntu Software Center (or apt-get install tmux).
25cf 13y ago
But cygwin isn't linux, and on 99% of actual linux distributions you will never have to compile tmux from source. A better statement would be "And people wonder why Windows never became mainstream for developers." Steps to install cygwin on actual linux? "(package manager) (install) tmux". And on OS X? Install brew by copy and pasting a command into terminal, then "brew install tmux". Even if you're an average consumer you could complete both of those steps without a problem. (Then again, why would the average consumer want tmux?) Windows/cygwin is the problem here, not linux.
- chid 13y ago
  If it were on the default package list if would just be apt-cyg install tmux (if you have apt-cyg installed)
- csmuk 13y ago
  Windows is mainstream for developers. There are millions of them. Probably more than the open source community. They just suffer more! (Note: I do both 50/50 and certainly don't prefer writing code on windows)
616c 13y ago
I know you're snark is par for the course here, but if you ever do Windows sysadmin work and you need to do some stuff on Windows that is unavoidable, Cygwin makes it much better. Even there terminal app, which can go fullscreen with tail, is worth debugging stuff. Try doing that with PowerShell and get-content -wait YourFileName.txt. I have literally waited minutes after a program exited while PS tries to keep up. But what do I know, I use Cygwin. Also see why Linux != Cygwin below.
- csmuk 13y ago
  I don't think it makes it any easier. To be honest (as someone who deploys a lot of Windows machines) PowerShell only makes it fractionally easier. There are always packages and bits of software that just don't have a programming interface at all (not even COM) at which point you are, to use the technical term, fucked whether you use PS or Cygwin. The platform as a whole stinks for programmability and I hate working with it.
weland 13y ago
Go back to 4chan, kid.

This is for installing tmux in Cygwin on Windows. Installing tmux in Ubuntu is as simple as searching and installing tmux from the Ubuntu Software Center (or apt-get install tmux).

25cf 13y ago

But cygwin isn't linux, and on 99% of actual linux distributions you will never have to compile tmux from source. A better statement would be "And people wonder why Windows never became mainstream for developers." Steps to install cygwin on actual linux? "(package manager) (install) tmux". And on OS X? Install brew by copy and pasting a command into terminal, then "brew install tmux". Even if you're an average consumer you could complete both of those steps without a problem. (Then again, why would the average consumer want tmux?) Windows/cygwin is the problem here, not linux.

chid 13y ago
If it were on the default package list if would just be apt-cyg install tmux (if you have apt-cyg installed)
csmuk 13y ago
Windows is mainstream for developers. There are millions of them. Probably more than the open source community. They just suffer more! (Note: I do both 50/50 and certainly don't prefer writing code on windows)

616c 13y ago

I know you're snark is par for the course here, but if you ever do Windows sysadmin work and you need to do some stuff on Windows that is unavoidable, Cygwin makes it much better. Even there terminal app, which can go fullscreen with tail, is worth debugging stuff. Try doing that with PowerShell and get-content -wait YourFileName.txt. I have literally waited minutes after a program exited while PS tries to keep up. But what do I know, I use Cygwin. Also see why Linux != Cygwin below.

csmuk 13y ago
I don't think it makes it any easier. To be honest (as someone who deploys a lot of Windows machines) PowerShell only makes it fractionally easier. There are always packages and bits of software that just don't have a programming interface at all (not even COM) at which point you are, to use the technical term, fucked whether you use PS or Cygwin. The platform as a whole stinks for programmability and I hate working with it.

weland 13y ago

Go back to 4chan, kid.