I'm a very happy byobu user. I think's it's just a tmux configuration accessible to newcomers. The benefits are:
- Toolbar with windows for visual orientation.
- byobu-enable command that sets up auto-start of byobu on SSH login.
- F1 - F12 shortcuts for most common operations with F1 being very concise help on the most common actions.
It's good enough that I can just install it on servers and most of the users won't need to further tune the config. This way, if I connect to a new server, I get a friendly UI.
Plain tmux requires more effort in the beginning. If you customize the config, now you need a way to distribute it to all the servers you connect to.
I'm sort of in the same boat. It does have a nice out-of-the-box setup, though I'm not a fan of F-keys and I like my vim keybindinds, so I'd be doing tweaking regardless
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 20.9 ms ] thread- Toolbar with windows for visual orientation.
- byobu-enable command that sets up auto-start of byobu on SSH login.
- F1 - F12 shortcuts for most common operations with F1 being very concise help on the most common actions.
It's good enough that I can just install it on servers and most of the users won't need to further tune the config. This way, if I connect to a new server, I get a friendly UI.
Plain tmux requires more effort in the beginning. If you customize the config, now you need a way to distribute it to all the servers you connect to.