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terminal

what is a terminal​

its a program that opens a window and let you interact with the shell.

A terminal emulator program emulates (simulates) a standalone terminal within a window on the desktop. By this, we mean it behaves essentially as if you were logging into the machine at a pure text terminal with no running graphical interface. Most terminal emulator programs support multiple terminal sessions by opening additional tabs or windows. By default, on GNOME desktop environments, the gnome-terminal application is used to emulate a text-mode terminal in a window. there are a bunch of different terminal depending on our linux distribution some of them are:

  • gnome-terminal
  • konsole
  • xterm
  • terminator

GNOME

GNOME is a popular desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of the Linux operating system.

is a popular desktop environment with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. It is bundled as the default desktop environment for most Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Fedora, CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Ubuntu and Debian. GNOME has menu-based navigation and is sometimes an easy transition to accomplish for Windows users.