[oceanswave]

The thing that really chaps my hide about the proliferation of these terminal based apps is that now I have all these terminal instances open.

For each cool app like this or terminal based chat apps or terminal slack that's another 2.4mb just for overhead! I'm looking at my process monitor right now and I have 250, 250mb, allocated to terminal apps. It's insane!

[msla]

For people who aren't being sarcastic: tmux is great. It even allows you to ssh into your machine, do `tmux attach` at the command prompt, and get all your terminal programs right there, from anywhere in the world.

And when you're done with the ssh session, detach and log out, and everything stays running.

[bclemens]

Some terminals (like urxvt) also support running as a daemon and spawning a new window just attaches to that terminal daemon. Faster and it saves you a megabyte or two over actually opening a whole new terminal.

[biggerfisch]

Wouldn't a GUI app have much, much more overhead though? Right now, the _Dock_ on my laptop is taking ~250MB on its own. A simple app that allows me to control when my monitors sleep is another 100MB. Both of those are way more that a simple terminal instance of 2.4MB.

[methyl]

I guess OP's post is just an irony about all the recent Electron apps bloat.

[torgoguys]

Yes. The OP is being sarcastic.

[fredley]

tmux or screen?

[43224gg252]

Or maybe even just tabs?