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The Mosh SSH client for intermittent connectivity ( https://mosh.org/ ) has definitely saved me at least 100 hours. Too bad that it's only available for Windows as a Chrome extension, and Chrome will discontinue support for it starting in the new year. Really not looking forward to having to search for an alternative...

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> Too bad that it's only available for Windows as a Chrome extension

Looks like it's available under msys2 on windows: https://packages.msys2.org/base/mosh

As an aside: msys2 mingw64 and friends are > 100 hours saved if you are a linux-soul in a windows environment. I don't think msys gets the attention it deserves.

And if you work in locked down corporate windows environments, asking for Git for Windows ("for local version control only") is a sneaky way to get the basic Unix utils installed. It's a lot easier to ask for VSCode + Git than some open source tools that will be viewed with suspicion by the local support team.

I've switched from Mosh to Eternal Terminal (https://eternalterminal.dev) because of its excellent native scrolling support.

To add on to that, I use iTerm2 with tmux control mode which combines a native UI frontend with a tmux backend on a remote server, meaning I can spawn new native tabs, windows, or panes and they're all tracked by the remote so I can reconnect to all of them at once if I disconnect.

I keep one laptop at home and one laptop at work and can seamlessly switch between the two without having to manage my active sessions at all. If I open a new tab at work and go home for the day it'll be there on my laptop at home.

Eternal Terminal pitches itself as entirely superior to Mosh, but also describes itself as using TCP (Mosh uses UDP). I'm curious how that can actually cover the use cases Mosh provides?

Mosh using UDP means that as a connectionless protocol, your end points can move (eg: from WiFi to LTE, or vice-versa), and beyond a small hiccup, your connections remain alive and well.

ET adds a layer between application and TCP sockets that persists connections. https://eternalterminal.dev/howitworks has more.

If you are mostly on unreliable and high-latency connections, mosh will likely feel better, but with no native scrollback.

I was using mosh+tmux earlier this year, but ended up switching to wezterm which has a native MacOS and Linux versions, and gives native interface to the terminal. And I can reconnect to my session if I suspend my mac or go somewhere else.

I guess you can install it in WSL?

how is it different from autossh? never used mosh yet

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