My last job was Windows desktop, so I installed vmware and ran Linux in fullscreen mode.

I figured as much. Just wanted to show another option.

I love httpie for hitting urls when i want to see the headers or body without downloading to a file eg testing an api

This was a few years ago so maybe it has improved, but I found that screen would crash and lose my session history and layout too often. That was bad enough, but when it happened it had some bullshit error message about a dungeon roof falling in. I don’t mind some comedy in code or even the interface, but don’t make light of the user losing their stuff. I tried tmux and it is much more stable than screen was.

mkdir -p will not complain if the dir exists