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Introduction

New users engaging with the Linux and the open-source ecosystem for the first time will likely encounter a significant amount of new terminology. This is a list of subjects that new users may wish to become familiar with upon delving into more advanced Linux usage.

Terms

In effort to avoid stressing new users, there are some subjectively more complicated topics most new users will not need to learn about, unless they are trying to perform some specific task.

Building
Compiling
Compositor
Git
GitHub
GNU
Hacking
Kernel
Kernel Module
Licenses
- General Public License [vX] (GPL vX)
Shell
- Bash
- ZSH
TTY
Wayland
X11
Xorg
Xwayland

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-The new user engaging with the modern world of Linux and the open-source ecosystem as a whole will likely be bombarded with loads of terminology that sounds foreign and often confusing. This is an index of different subjects that a new user should learn about upon interacting with Linux for the first time.
+== Introduction ==
+New users engaging with the [[Linux]] and the open-source ecosystem for the first time will likely encounter a significant amount of new terminology. This is a list of subjects that new users may wish to become familiar with upon delving into more advanced Linux usage.
-* [[Linux]]
+== Terms ==
-* [[Distro]]
+* [[Bloat]]
-* [[DE / WM|Desktop Environments and Window Managers]]
+* [[CLI|Command-Line Interface (CLI)]]
+* [[Command]]
+* [[Desktop Environment‏‎|Desktop Environment‏‎s]]
+** [[GNOME]]
+** [[KDE Plasma]]
+** [[Xfce]]
 * [[Display Manager]]
-* [[KDE|KDE / Plasma]]
-* [[Gnome|GNOME]]
-* [[Package manager|Package Manager]]
-** [[apt|''apt'']]
-** [[pacman|''pacman'']]
-** [[zypper|''zypper'']]
-** [[dnf|''dnf'']]
-** [[rpm|''rpm'']]
-** [[Apk|''apk'']]
-** [[Nixpkgs|''nixpkgs'']]
-* [[Ricing|Theming / "Ricing"]]
-* [[Repo / Repository]]
-* [[Script]]
-* [[Command]]
-* [[Package]]
-* [[Program]]
-* [[CLI|Command-Line Interface (CLI)]]
-* [[TUI|Text-Based User Interface (TUI)]]
-* [[GUI|Graphical User Interface (GUI)]]
 * [[Drivers]]
-* [[Flatpak]]
-* [[tar.xz / Tarball]] - broaden to file compression?
-* [[AppImage]]
-* [[Snap]]
-* [[Bloat]]
 * [[FOSS / FLOSS|Free Open Source Software  / Free, Libre Open Source Software (FOSS/FLOSS)]]
+* [[GUI|Graphical User Interface (GUI)]]
+* [[Linux]]
+* [[Linux Distributions|Linux Distribution]]
+* [[Ownership]]
+* [[Package]]
+* [[Package Manager]]
+** [[apk]]
+** [[apt]]
+** [[dnf]]
+** [[dpkg]]
+** [[flatpak]]
+** [[NixOS|nix]]
+** [[pacman]]
+** [[portage]]
+** [[rpm]]
+** [[snap]]
+** [[zypper]]
 * [[Privacy]]
-* [[Ownership]]
+* [[Program]]
+* [[Repository|Repository (Repo)]]
+* [[Script]]
 * [[Security]]
+* [[tar.xz / Tarball]]
+* [[TUI|Text-Based User Interface (TUI)]]
+* [[Ricing|Theming / "Ricing"]]
+* [[Window Manager|Window Managers]]
+** [[Dwm|DWM]]
+** [[Hyprland]]
+** [[IceWM]]
+** [[i3]]
 In effort to avoid stressing new users, there are some subjectively more complicated topics most new users will not ''need'' to learn about, unless they are trying to perform some specific task.
+* [[Building]]
+* [[Compiling]]
+* [[Compositor]]
 * [[Git]]
 * [[GitHub]]
+* [[GNU]]
+* [[Hacking]]
 * [[Kernel]]
-* [[Bash]]
+* [[Kernel Module]]
+* [[Licenses]]
+** [[GPL / GPLv3|General Public License [vX] (GPL vX)]]
 * [[Shell]]
+** [[Bash]]
+** [[ZSH]]
 * [[TTY]]
-* [[Kernel Module]]
-* [[Compositor]]
 * [[Wayland]]
+* [[X11]]
 * [[XOrg|Xorg]]
-* [[X11]]
+* [[Xwayland]]
-* [[Xwayland]] - all three of the X's in one place? All in compositor, even?
-* [[Compiling]]
-* [[Building]]
-* [[License]] - put GPL in here?
-* [[GPL / GPLv3|General Public License [vX] (GPL vX)]]
-* [[GNU]] - same place as GPL?
-* [[Hacking]]
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+[[Category:Terminology]]