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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If you’ve been using Ms command line and windows for 40 years, you’d remember that there was Ms dos and windows. They were separate things. You would use windows to graphically interact with the file system and see the desktop, etc. There were some basic games in windows that you could load like paint, but for heavy games like doom, you had to exit out of windows and run them through Ms dos. Windows ran on top of Ms dos.
Gnome is like that version of windows — a graphical way to interact with the file system and nontext programs. There is Ubuntu which is a flavor of the Linux file system and then there is gnome which is a way to graphically display menus, your desktop, the little clock, applications written to work with gnome, etc.
Since computer resources have increased drastically, you don’t need to exit out of the desktop, it can run in the background.
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