Make Tmux the OS
The author proposes a reimagining of desktop operating systems based on the workflow efficiency of the terminal multiplexer 'tmux'. The piece argues that modern OS design is stagnant and should prioritize session persistence and task-oriented window management.
Why it matters
This reflects a broader debate in the tech community regarding the limitations of current GUI-based operating systems and the desire for more customizable, power-user-focused interfaces.
I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AfAcQwLW0&t=445s . He's a great presenter, really articulate and concise. The kind of speaker that you'd gladly listen to for 3+ hours if given the chance. Which for a talk about window management is quite the compliment.
The overall point of the talk was "Apple and Microsoft aren't going to innovate anymore in the desktop OS space, so it is up to us all to decide what the desktop of the future is going to look like". I would argue that the actual situation to more nuanced than that, they're trying ideas they are just extremely conservative. As Jenson points out, a lot of what we treat as "how computers work" was a workaround for hardware we stopped having years ago. So why are we still accepting those tradeoffs?
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