Terminal and all that other shit, I follow you. Command lines. Fine. I don’t know what the Linux terms mean, but I understand command lines etc… But GNOME… what the fuck is it? Is it a suite? an environment? Every Linux user explains things like I’ve already been a user for a few years and all of them have forgotten what being NEW actually is.
Ironically, the WORST place to find Linux environments explained simply and clearly from the bottom up: The Internet.
This is where I remind and beg: Like. I’m. FIVE.
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The operating system is not the pretty program (aka the windows, mouse, etc.) you see when you start your computer.
The operating system runs on the command line behind everything you see.
The operating system needs to run a “program” that provides you with something to look at, a GUI (graphical user interface.)
Back in the DOS days, this was windows. DOS was the command prompt, and you needed to TELL IT to run windows.
GNOME is the same thing. GNOME is windows as DOS is to linux.
So GNOME is literally just the GUI that linux can run. There are other GUIs that linux can run (KDE for example) but GNOME is one of the most popular.
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