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Hi there! I'm the author and maintainer of Byobu (byobu.org) here. Byobu started as "Screen for mere mortals", but eventually pivoted to work with Tmux, as well. Nowadays, Byobu is much more tightly tied to Tmux. You can think of it, as a super opinionated set of Tmux settings, easily portable across all of your machines. Happy to answer any questions here!

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Does Byobu run best on Ubuntu?

Or is Byobu not (or not any longer) tied to any particular Linux distribution (I am an ubuntu user) ?

As a byobu user, the only difficulties I've had getting it working was when I tried to get it on Android/termux, which doesn't provide Python/etc packages through apt (default termux repos also don't provide gcc). It works fine for me on fedora and other full distros. As far as working well, byobu doesn't work well on windows WSL1, but I think that's more related to the process model being different and the missing (filesystem, init) functionally for status bar applets.

(Author of Byobu here) Byobu does run "best" on Ubuntu + Gnome-Terminal + Tmux, mainly because that's the primary environment in which I test it. However, I and others have ported and used it on many other Linux and Unix systems, and I'm always happy to take bug reports and patches that fix issues on other OSes.

Why tmux instead of the screen?

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