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nandhithakamal • Edited

TL;DR - Alacritty + Tmux

Alacritty with tmux. Using alacritty forced met to get familiar with tmux. Although I'm not even close to being a pro tmux user using tmux greatly helps when connecting to servers. You don't have to create multiple sessions for the sake of running multiple things parallel-y or monitoring a bunch of different stats. One ssh session and use tmux to multiplex your terminal.
Super useful now in the remote world. We have to ssh into machines and servers all the time and tmux comes in handy. If you're pairing and are constrained by network. Both of you can now just ssh into the machine and connect to the same tmux session (instead of sharing screen)

Tmux can be used on any terminal - but Alacritty forced me to use it. Alacritty provides no panes and provides for only one shell at a time.

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Madza

Awesome insight, thanks for this! 👍🔥