18 engineers on Hacker News describe using GNU Screen first-hand: 4 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I use screen a lot (yes I know, I should switch to tmux one day!)”
mixed · personal · soundjack · 2015-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using screen for years. It works well for me.”
endorse · personal · gcv · 2013-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“defscrollback 100000 is probably the single most important thing in my .screenrc.”
endorse · personal · adavies42 · 2011-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using screen for over 16 years now. ... I can switch between machines at home or at work and resume my screen session.”
endorse · personal · 16 yr · kokey · 2011-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using screen for years, and just switched to tmux... tmux had that where as gnu screen required hack patches.”
regret · personal · froseph · 2011-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With screen, we constantly had to tell the other pair which window we were looking at, which was a constant distraction.”
regret · production · benburkert · 2010-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“something I've been doing with screen for 10 years because I find it handy is to attach to different windows”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · jedbrown · 2010-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently switched to tmux... It is actively being developed (screen is currently stagnant), it has a much greater scripting capability”
regret · personal · Nick_C · 2010-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“falling back to screen and promising to myself - never again”
neutral · personal · suslik · 2025-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“this was before we had learned what screen could do, then we switched to that”
neutral · personal · Jtsummers · 2018-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a nested setup with a "meta" screen session with escape key ^Z”
neutral · personal · philsnow · 2018-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for a while I was even running them all within a screen session”
neutral · production · Frondo · 2016-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“each with their own gnu screen instance”
neutral · personal · e12e · 2014-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after 15 years in ircii, irssi and weechat inside screen and tmux.”
neutral · personal · fps · 2013-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“run a terminal irc client like irssi or weechat in screen/tmux. That's what I've been using for the last 15 years or so.”
neutral · personal · 15 yr · vinkelhake · 2013-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ctrl-\ as my Ctrl-a in screen (and occasionally tmux).”
neutral · personal · jzawodn · 2013-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using screen for years, and everywhere I turn, I see tmux, too!”
neutral · personal · mcantor · 2010-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“pair-programming on complex parts or sticking points through screen and vim, we have an ec2 instance dedicated for pairing”
neutral · production · matthewcford · 2010-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?