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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Not much, honestly. GNU screen was my main driver until one day I was about to give a talk at Linux Conf AU and realised I needed a "presentation mode" for my terminal. I wanted keep the terminal full screen, but also be able to flip back and forth between my notes. Tmux can do that: you can open tmux in one terminal window, have it on one screen (or computer, for that matter) and then attach to that same tmux session from another terminal - and anything you enter into one is displayed, in real-time, on the other.
Since then, I decided that for me that flexibility was pretty nice, so I've mostly switched to tmux (so I can get to know it better). But that may be a pretty niche use case, so that may not persuade you to use tmux over GNU Screen.
Then again, it doesn't have to be a wholesale switch from one to the other. They're both Free Software, they coexist peacefully. You can use one or the other as needed!
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