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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Gnome/kde isn’t a desktop environment.
There is the basic cli linux. On top of it is a window manager and on top of that tools like a file manager or word processor.
Gnome and KDE (and probably some other things) sit between the basic and the window manager and provide services. Desktop taskbars, common places to save info lots of apps might want, one of many ways of coordinating things like what your alarms do if you’re watching a movie or talking over voice chat.
And it’s hard to explain because it’s somewhat nebulous. It’s an attempt.to fill all the gaps between the basic and the window managers and provide some extra tools and shared libraries for building tools.
And all the pieces together, with or without the gnome/kde are a desktop environment.
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