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How I use my terminal

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539 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 15:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source
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brohimx ◴[24 Jun 25 00:19 UTC] No.44361586[source]▶
So, he uses tmux on Windows? How does that actually work? Can someone elaborate on it?
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1. hiAndrewQuinn ◴[24 Jun 25 00:29 UTC] No.44361643[source]▶
I believe he is remoting into a Unix system to do his actual work. The Unix system can have tmux installed and running on it perfectly fine. I've done this too, to the extreme of SSHing into my own Virtualbox VM just to get that perfect compatibility layer that WSL still can't quite match.

Indeed, this is one of the strongest arguments for tmux versus other approaches to this problem. It can run on the server you're remoted into and still do its job. https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/tmux-is-worse...