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#2I am also a fan of mosh.
I really like that I can close my laptop and put it into standby, take it somewhere else with a different wifi network and just open it and get right back to work. From a user perspective it appears as if mosh was never disconnected.
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#3I mostly use mosh from my mobile for connections to home. It handles session persistence nicely even while on the move.
It'd be great if I could use it now while working from home because my ssh sessions keep dying. Unfortunately the work firewall won't allow this. So tmux to preserve the sessions is the best I can do.
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#4I've used mosh extensively over the last few years with very few issues. It composes well with tmux. The only barrier to me really advocating it is the lack of support for bastion hosts and working around firewalls.
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#5Eternal Terminal ‘et’ is like Mosh but functionally better. Doesn’t break scrollback. Transparent to tmux control mode.
I switched from Mosh to et across 12ish servers around 6 months ago and am way happier for it.
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#6I am also a fan of mosh. I really like that I can close my laptop and put it into standby, take it somewhere else with a different wifi network and just open it and get right back to work. From a user perspective it appears as if mosh was never disconnected.
You can use tmux for persistence like that, and I use mosh in combination with tmux just because it's so nice to get multiple windows and panes.
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#7I started using mosh a few weeks ago when I was working over ssh more. Even for working over LAN it was attractive because I'm really sensitive to typing latency. Don't be like the author and put off trying it, it's dead easy to install and try. No setup and no commitment to keep using it.
However, I quickly ran into a problem which is that it breaks a scrollback. This is the one big problem with mosh and will probably never be fixed. I tried to find other ways but eventually decided I couldn't live with it. Shame.
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#8The article misses the other great feature of Mosh: It never get disconnected, regardless of the client's state (IP address change, or device sleep mode), and you will never loose terminal sessions.
When this is not so appealing to desktop users, it is a godsend feature for laptop/mobile users. Especially, if you are an iPad user you should try Blink shell app [1] with Mosh. This combination turns the iPad your favorite portable terminal machine.
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#9I started using mosh a few weeks ago when I was working over ssh more. Even for working over LAN it was attractive because I'm really sensitive to typing latency. Don't be like the author and put off trying it, it's dead easy to install and try. No setup and no commitment to keep using it. However, I quickly ran into a problem which is that it breaks a scrollback. This is the one big problem with mosh and will probab…
Look into Eternal Terminal. It doesn't break scroll back.
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#10The article misses the other great feature of Mosh: It never get disconnected, regardless of the client's state (IP address change, or device sleep mode), and you will never loose terminal sessions. When this is not so appealing to desktop users, it is a godsend feature for laptop/mobile users. Especially, if you are an iPad user you should try Blink shell app [1] with Mosh. This combination turns the iPad your favor…
It's even useful for desktop users if you are hopping off and on a VPN.