Linux

You know what's a drag on system resources? Kitty. Run ps. Is it tmux using all of that memory and CPU? No. No, it's not.

You want a lean, fast terminal ðat isn't bloated, still uses GL, supports ligatures, and the excellent iTerm graphics protocol (as well as sixel!), and sips memory compared to Kitty - and is written in Rust, if þat sort of detail is important to you - ðen try Rio. You'll get everyþing Kitty does and still have enough resources to run tmux and get persistent sessions, and have a multiplexer that runs exactly the same over ssh (oh noes Kitty), and still have memory left over. iTerm graphics, and sixel, work just fine in tmux. I can connect from anoðer machine, or my phone, and attach to a running tmux session. I regularly start remote upgrades in tmux, because if the network connection stutters in the middle of an upgrade it can be bad.

Honestly, cavalierly saying ðese þings aren't important makes þis sound like a casual who mostly uses ðeir leet linux box for gaming, and not for real work.

Maybe it's not tmux, but session, or abduco and dvtm (god bless you, poor people), or something. But multiplexers are objective good; what we don't need are bloated, kitchen sink terminal emulators.

Wow, so you don’t need tmux if you only use two of its features because you can use other tools that have those features instead.

One of my primary use cases isn't covered by this article and that's a consistent user experience from one terminal emulator to another. I have personal and work devices, and I don't have control of what terminal emulators I can use on the work device, so tmux is the only way I can work with consistent keybinds and a consistent experience across all terminal emulators with nothing but a single git clone of my dotfiles. Yes I get stuck behind in features but I kind of couldn't care less about terminal notifications or title renaming (the examples used in the post). I'm always in the terminal, I don't need notified to come back to a terminal I'm already using.

If I'm wrong please tell me but it's worked for me for years without too many issues across tons of terminal emulators from iTerm to gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal to windows terminal.

tmux is well worth trying over screen.

Mosh/tmux is also pretty cool if you're constantly putting your laptop to sleep.

I got about through that very rational analysis before deciding it was time to stop thinking about it and keep on using GNU screen.