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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Anonymous 0 Comments

A bunch of graphical software components glued together + some apps per made.

GNU/linux systems are usually made up of multiple pieces. The pieces that make graphics are kind of a rabbit hole. Desktop Environments (such as GNOME) just provide you with everything you need.

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