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I used to use mosh, tmux before but always got annoyed how they broke scrolling , searching etc.. Especially when yakuake already provides half the functionality i used to rely on tmux for..
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What sorts of issues?
This is going back around 8 years so my memories aren't perfect and the issues could have been fixed by now. IIRC my biggest gripes were: 1. There was no scroll-back so you could only see 1 terminal screen of output. If you scrolled back, the text would be wrong or truncated or something like that. We would work around this by launching a tmux session and using that for scroll-back, but tmux scroll-back over a remote…
A few other issues I do remember running into (probably 10 years ago?):
1. Because it was udp, sometimes a captive portal, work, or hotel firewall blocked it.
2. It was also not installed by default anywhere, so sometimes sysadmins at work were unwilling to install it for me.
3. I sometimes ran into issues with color handling and utf8. I honestly don't remember if it was mosh or my terminal, though. It seemed to happen more often when I used mosh, but I could be misremembering.
When mosh came out back in 2013, it solved a pretty real problem of ssh crapping out when you changed networks (like moving from in-office to home). It solves it at the app layer and uses UDP and is designed to work in high loss / latency environments. Very cool. At the same time, in recent years, I've found that ssh running on top of Wireguard / Tailscale is way more usable than 2013 days. Those latter tools address…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What sorts of issues?
This is going back around 8 years so my memories aren't perfect and the issues could have been fixed by now. IIRC my biggest gripes were: 1. There was no scroll-back so you could only see 1 terminal screen of output. If you scrolled back, the text would be wrong or truncated or something like that. We would work around this by launching a tmux session and using that for scroll-back, but tmux scroll-back over a remote…
When mosh came out back in 2013, it solved a pretty real problem of ssh crapping out when you changed networks (like moving from in-office to home). It solves it at the app layer and uses UDP and is designed to work in high loss / latency environments. Very cool. At the same time, in recent years, I've found that ssh running on top of Wireguard / Tailscale is way more usable than 2013 days. Those latter tools address…
It definitely solves problems when traveling and dealing with crappy airport/hotel/AirBnB/conference wifi that is slow or overloaded.
When mosh came out back in 2013, it solved a pretty real problem of ssh crapping out when you changed networks (like moving from in-office to home). It solves it at the app layer and uses UDP and is designed to work in high loss / latency environments. Very cool. At the same time, in recent years, I've found that ssh running on top of Wireguard / Tailscale is way more usable than 2013 days. Those latter tools address…
When mosh came out back in 2013, it solved a pretty real problem of ssh crapping out when you changed networks (like moving from in-office to home). It solves it at the app layer and uses UDP and is designed to work in high loss / latency environments. Very cool. At the same time, in recent years, I've found that ssh running on top of Wireguard / Tailscale is way more usable than 2013 days. Those latter tools address…