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Any reason it's not using zellij but still tmux? I thought this use case was basically what zellij was made for.
To be clear, I'm seriously asking, I don't really use the terminal to host fully fledged applications/screens
I haven't tried zellij yet, but I'll give it a shot (thanks).
If I had to guess, it's that there are a ton of plug-ins for tmux and she's more comfortable with tmux.
Really, any terminal multiplexer will work fine. You just need to be able to do multiple things at once, Linux offers a plethora of choices for this.
Agreed, i should also be trying zellij, but my tmux is so well configured (for my) and dracula-tmux has everything i’d want, so it’d be hard to leave that behind for a not otherwise specified benefit. speed i guess?
considering that she’s using debian, i feel like she’s also living the peaceful life of not always chasing the latest shiny new tool, if the one she’s got is working well.
I'm loving byobu, which is to say preconfigured tmux.
Zellij is pretty cool though.