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I prefer tmux, but yes. Both do a great job in helping me manage my terminal sessions.
tmux is based
Tmux is good because I can have a little window with a bonsai in it and another little window for the matrix. Sometimes I even leave a window for typing in commands.
Based is fetch.
Stop trying to make fetch happen
What can I say. I'm old.
Scrolling in screen is superior to tmux imo
Scrolling is tmux is what I hate about it. I would prefer to use tmux since I'm use to it. But if someone can explain to me why I can't just use my scroll wheel on my mouse.
As I understand it, the issue is that tmux invents its own terminal emulator functionality that conflicts with the existing terminal it runs within, while screen simply defers scroll functionality to the terminal emulator.