Furthermore it can provide a persistent console when working remotely with ssh. If you use ssh to work remotely on a computer, you often want your processes to keep running even when you disconnect or loose the network connection. Screen allows to create persistent shells, which you can detach and re-attach any time, to continue your work where you left off (see the example below).
Alternatives: [tmux](https://tmux.github.io) or [mosh](https://mosh.org)
Alternatives:
-[tmux](https://tmux.github.io)(for usage with background/compute jobs, see [[/linux/workstation/resource_control/#background-or-compute-jobs]])
