[joshstrange]

I spend so little time relatively on my own machine’s terminal and even when I do I don’t want it to be totally different from the boxes I SSH into every day. That context switch would be frustrating. Nor do I have the desire to push for something like this to be installed on our fleet of servers.

Do the people who use this (along with terminal emulators that require you install things on the host to get the full power) just not use other machines and/or install stuff like this on them? Just seems odd to me personally but I’m interested in how others use it. Do you only use your own computer/terminal so it’s not an issue?

[wodenokoto]

I suppose I “just don’t use other machines” and when I do, they suck and mine rocks, which I consider a lot better than “both sucks, but I am used to it”

[joshstrange]

Totally understandable. I my computer is highly configured for “me” which means I feel lost if I sit down at someone else’s computer. That said, I spend 90%+ of my time in a terminal SSH’d to other box. If it was closer to 50-50 I’d be more interested but improving <10% and the added context switch isn’t worth it for me personally.

Thank you!

[KolenCh]

If you want to, you can invest time in automating this so that you can feel at home at every boxes.

Surely it is some work to ensure your user environment are all the same across different machines. But it is also liberating as you are no longer limited to choose the few common features available everywhere.

[rgoulter]

If it's a machine that you're going to be working on a lot, you might as well have good tools installed. (And if it's a machine where stuff like starship would be bloat, then it's probably not something people should be SSHing into frequently).