I've not used byobu in about a decade, but it has crashed on me in the past. I've never had tmux crash.
The other thing I didn't care w/byobu was that it had a clock in the bottom row. Once a minute my terminal window would light up telling me that something on that tab had changed.
Author/maintainer of Byobu here... Tell me more about your "byobu crash". Can you point me to any bug reports in either bugs.launchpad.net/byobu or github.com/dustinkirkland/byobu ? Thanks! @DustinKirkland
Hi Dustin, thanks for the response. Unfortunately this was nearly a decade ago on Ubuntu server 10.04, and I'm sure that a lot has changed since then.
If I have the time, though, I'll fire up byobu and see if I can make it happen again. I tend to leave sessions open for many months and it wasn't something which happened on a regular basis, and I never experienced it with bare tmux.
Perhaps they've changed that issue since it doesn't happen to me at all. The only thing I'm missing though is possibility to save panes config. Unfortunately it is against the idea of reboot wiping everything down from the session...
The other thing I didn't care w/byobu was that it had a clock in the bottom row. Once a minute my terminal window would light up telling me that something on that tab had changed.