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Terminals, consoles, and TTYs

Terminals, consoles, and TTYs - Linux Tutorial

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Terminals, consoles, and TTYs

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- [Instructor] When we interact with a Linux system, there's two primary ways we go about it. Those are through a desktop and through a shell. A desktop environment provides us a graphical way of interacting with the system, providing windows and buttons, and sliders and things like that, which we'll often interact with using a mouse or a touch screen. Quite a bit of the software on a Linux system uses or benefits from a graphical user interface, or a GUI, and many people use their system exclusively or nearly exclusively in this way. If you'd like to learn more about desktops, take a look at the episodes that focus on that topic later in this series. Or, check out our other LinkedIn Learning courses, which discuss various Linux desktop environments in greater depth. The other way we interact with the Linux system is through the text-based interface known as the shell. A shell is a program that accepts text input and…

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