From the course: Learning Fedora Linux
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Working at the command line
- [Instructor] While it's pretty easy to use Linux desktop environments these days without ever needing to use the terminal, many power users, hobbyists, and others find using the terminal pretty handy. You can get to a terminal either by opening a terminal application from Activities or by switching to a console with Control + Alt and one of the F keys, and logging in there. In this case, I hit Control + Alt + F3. But for now I'll type exit, and I'll go back to my desktop I'll press Control + Shift and Equals, to increase the font size. And then from the View menu, I'll choose Full Screen. Long ago, the only input interfaces computers had An operating system is a bunch of software, which is the very core of Linux. Other operating systems have their own kernels too, One of those pieces of software is called a shell. The shell is usually an environment where the user can issue commands and see output. Over the years, since the development of Unix in the 1970s, there have been a number…
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