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Here's a kind of dumb question:

Are the primary usecases of this for SSH, or for non-tiling desktop environments? People say a lot of good stuff about it, but I struggle to figure out what it can do for me when I'm just doing stuff on a local computer, where I can just create new terminal windows.

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To some extent it's mostly equivalent to using terminal windows. You can do other stuff w/ it but most of the time it's for managing lots of panes/windows. Personally I really just like its UI and it works really well w/ my workflows. I actually used to run tmux + vim splits + i3wm and managed to find myself really using the heck out of some really gnarly tiling schemes at times. Talking 10+ panes of really tiny windows at once, just on the fly. And then when I need to zoom in on one file in some pane, boom, ctrl+b+z and it's maximized.

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