I apologise if that's how my response came across. what I was trying to express is that I wish to show what I believe are best practices, and these tools are used throughout the course. I do not mean to suggest that tmux is critical, or that there are not other good options.
Personally I enjoy seeing how others setup and use their tools, and feel it is underappreciated in many courses; attempting to fill that gap is a little of my particular bias.
> Personally I enjoy seeing how others setup and use their tools, and feel it is underappreciated in many courses
Interesting - that explains a lot, thanks. Sorry to say, but I for one hate courses / tutorials where the tutor tries to force me to use his/her pet technology, totally unrelated to the topic at hand. I have always wondered what made them do it, and I guess they just want to help.
Still, if you want to be helpful, show me this favorite tech of yours and optionally point me to a separate resource for learning it, I might check it out sometime. But I didn't come here to learn tmux, I came for deep learning. My time is precious so please don't waste it. I would understand if you wanted to teach me basics of TensorFlow (and TensorBoard) or similar, but tmux, vi, emacs, bash,... are all outside the scope. IMHO of course. :)
Personally I enjoy seeing how others setup and use their tools, and feel it is underappreciated in many courses; attempting to fill that gap is a little of my particular bias.