[zadjii]

In my experience, there's two archetypes of terminal users: * Open one window and leave it open forever. Reuse that one for all commands. * Open a window, run a couple commands, and close it.

For the second group, startup perf is everything, because users hit that multiple times a day. For the first group, not so much.

Some of the other tiling functionality is also more helpful for folks that aren't on platforms with as powerful of window managers (macOS, Windows)

[badsectoracula]

I am in the second group, kinda - i hit Win+Shift+X (my global key for opening a new terminal) pretty much all the time to enter a few commands. I basically open terminals in a "train of thought"-like fashion, when i think of something that isn't about what i do in one terminal i open another to run/check/etc out. Sometimes i even close those terminals too :-P (when i work on something there might be several terminal windows scattered all over the place in different virtual desktops).

Also i'm using xterm and i always found it very fast, i never thought that i'd like a faster terminal.

[minusf]

i think a very effective workflow is missing from this list: open a long running terminal window but have many tmux panes.

many modern wm's and terminals have multitab and multiwindow features but i invested time only into learning tmux and i can use it anywhere. and of course nohup functionality is builtin by definition.

i have said it before and i can say it again: terminals come and go, tmux stays.