4-decade long MS command line and Windows user learning Ubuntu. Please ELI actually 5: GNOME. I’m yet to find a Linux person who explain it simply.

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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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It calls the graphical libraries that make your GUI, like GDI32.dll, User32.dll in Windows. It creates the graphical subsystem. You have a shell .dll that runs your windows desktop and keeps track of all the links on it to your drives, programs and system files for you to click on. Gnome creates the same environment in Ubuntu, gives you all your windows and folders and nifty things you click on instead of typing in a box.

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