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tmux vs Starship (Shell Prompt): What are the differences?

What is tmux? A terminal multiplexer. It enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

What is Starship (Shell Prompt)? Extremely customizable prompt for any shell. Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! The prompt shows information you need while you're working, while staying sleek and out of the way.

tmux and Starship (Shell Prompt) can be categorized as "Shell Utilities" tools.

tmux and Starship (Shell Prompt) are both open source tools. tmux with 15K GitHub stars and 1.01K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Starship (Shell Prompt) with 2.51K GitHub stars and 77 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Starship (Shell Prompt)
Pros of tmux
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    Cross-shell
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    Cross-platform
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    Multi-threaded
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    Configurable
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    Excellent documentation
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    Docs localized to Japanese
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    Quick setup
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    Reliable, easy and highly customizable

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What is Starship (Shell Prompt)?

Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! The prompt shows information you need while you're working, while staying sleek and out of the way.

What is tmux?

It enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

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What are some alternatives to Starship (Shell Prompt) and tmux?
Oh My ZSH
A delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. It comes bundled with thousands of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes.
TortoiseSVN
It is an Apache™ Subversion (SVN)® client, implemented as a Windows shell extension. It's intuitive and easy to use, since it doesn't require the Subversion command line client to run. And it is free to use, even in a commercial environment.
Scoop.sh
It installs programs to your home directory by default. So you don’t need admin permissions to install programs, and you won’t see UAC popups every time you need to add or remove a program.
fzf
It is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder. It's an interactive Unix filter for command-line that can be used with any list; files, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.
navi
It allows you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands, prompting for argument values.
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