But cygwin isn't linux, and on 99% of actual linux distributions you will never have to compile tmux from source. A better statement would be "And people wonder why Windows never became mainstream for developers."

Steps to install cygwin on actual linux? "(package manager) (install) tmux". And on OS X? Install brew by copy and pasting a command into terminal, then "brew install tmux". Even if you're an average consumer you could complete both of those steps without a problem. (Then again, why would the average consumer want tmux?) Windows/cygwin is the problem here, not linux.

This is for installing tmux in Cygwin on Windows. Installing tmux in Ubuntu is as simple as searching and installing tmux from the Ubuntu Software Center (or apt-get install tmux).

I know you're snark is par for the course here, but if you ever do Windows sysadmin work and you need to do some stuff on Windows that is unavoidable, Cygwin makes it much better. Even there terminal app, which can go fullscreen with tail, is worth debugging stuff. Try doing that with PowerShell and get-content -wait YourFileName.txt. I have literally waited minutes after a program exited while PS tries to keep up.

But what do I know, I use Cygwin. Also see why Linux != Cygwin below.

Go back to 4chan, kid.