RPoD briefly talked about the raging war between screen and
tmux[1]. I've seen the topic a few times, it seems to me, on
SDF's bboard and in various other places. When I signed up
over at hashbang.sh, they forced me into a tmux session by
default. It's a "thing."
RPoD heretically chose screen over tmux. At a very high
level, I understand why there might be an argument over
which one is best, and why people might go with one or the
other and not always one in particular. I have my own issues
with both, and they're completely non-technical.
For no justifiable modern reason, I tend to always want to
conserve computing resources. Even if those resources will
simply end up sitting there dormant, I just don't like to
use them if I don't need them. I don't know where the
general behavior comes from, but I think it has something to
do with my personal history with computer use. Maybe I've
got other problems, I don't know.
My laptop is pretty average by modern standards. It's an i5,
with 8GB of ram, and a fair sized SSD. I do use multiple
workspaces, and normally have an email client running, a
browser running, and at least 3 xterms. Those are the things
that I use most throughout the day, so I keep them up. So
far, I think I'm fairly normal there.
My browser, I think, is where I diverge from most modern
users. I can't tolerate leaving tabs open. It's some kind of
mania. When I'm using the browser, I might have 1-10 tabs
going, depending on what I'm doing. But I don't leave them
running, I close them when I'm done, without fail. If there
is something I feel like I need to save, I save it. If there
is something I might want to reference later, I either save
it or I bookmark it (not in the browser.)
I have no idea what it means in terms of memory use or CPU
use, I just don't like to leave them open. It's a personal
problem.
Most servers these days are also more than capable and
resource laden to cover screen/tmux sessions. I realize that
if I leave myself logged in over at SDF or on Grex or almost
anywhere else, it's not going to hurt anything. And yet, I
just can't get past the whole "using a resource I don't need
to use."
I guess some users might need or want to keep things going
while they're away, and that makes sense. I guess until that
becomes my need, I'll be even more the heretic by not using
either of the options.
[1]
gopher://gopher.leveck.us:70/1/phlog/20180325.post
