i set up each of my terminals with a specific purpose. they all live in a different directory and stay there (or switch to subdirectories and back). say for example a terminal for each project i am simultaneously tracking, or each long-term task.

as a result i have dozens of terminals.

but, i never work on more than one project or task at a time. so there is really no need for more than one terminal-window to be on my screen at any one time.

on other words, using tmux locally helps me avoid clutter on my desktop.