I find the whole “Ctrl+b followed by another key” way of navigating tmux to be too cumbersome to warrant a switch away from something like Tilix where I can hit Ctrl+Alt+| and the screen splits vertically, or Alt+Left to switch to the terminal on the left. I think it’s the mandatory release of all keys followed by more keys that does it.
Is there a way to tell tmux to understand that “Alt+Left means switch to the terminal on the left” and bypass the whole Ctrl+b song and dance altogether?
I agree, you could ask a search engine which is gamed to give you the most promoted result instead of the best one, or you could indeed ask an AI which is trained to give you an aesthetically pleasing answer that may or may not be without substance…
More simply, you could just reach out to the wider community and get a reasonably up-to-date answer with an easy back and forth from others in the same situation without any worry about nefarious incentives.
I guess it depends on how you measure what a good and trustworthy answer is.
Following your speculative reasoning - sure, until this forum too much like any other before it becomes swamped with non questions like this and becomes heavily moderated by necessity and users like yourself are upset that moderators are not doing their non paid volunteer work and then for doing it.
Once again agreed, but there is always merit in the growth period where user-interests and mod-interests are aligned to facilitate open and honest discussion before the platform becomes enshittified as you suggest. It’s one of the reasons why many of us left reddit for greener pastures.
I believe we are still in this beneficial growth period, and that lemmy still has some time before the community saturates in its usefulness, but if you think that is not the case then no one should stop you from seeking other places to get good content.
Then we do not agree at all. I think key is to help people to help themselves to learn, sometimes by telling them to figure it out themselves when you know it is something that is an easy peasy figure for anybody that actually makes an attempt at it. Not to provide answers until you feel the community is big enough to not accept slop any more because arbitrary feels and then abandon ship. And who are you to decide and tell people to leave, me now and others later? Putting on some tall horse big balls pants there my dude community boss.
Btw, none of this is what enshittification means, just for your information. And as a gift, I bestow upon you this quest to learn what it actually means, all by yourself! It will provide you with knowledge and skills to carry for the rest of your life. Yay! You may now downvoted because I made you pissy, but sometimes getting pissy is required for personal growth.