The biggest advantage of tmux is if you want to go multi-user. It can be done with screen, but it involves some pretty heinous setuid hacks. tmux doesn't inven

The biggest advantage of tmux is if you want to go multi-user. It can be done with screen, but it involves some pretty heinous setuid hacks. tmux doesn't invent its own permissions system; it just communicates over a socket. Anyone with permissions to read the socket can join. Anyone with permissions to write to the socket can interact. It's stupid easy.