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** [[apt|''apt'']] | ** [[apt|''apt'']] | ||
Revision as of 13:36, 4 June 2024
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.
- Linux
- Distro
- Desktop Environments and Window Managers
- Display Manager
- Package Manager
- Theming / "Ricing"
- Repo / Repository
- Script
- Command
- Package
- Program
- Command-Line Interface (CLI)
- Text-Based User Interface (TUI)
- Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Drivers
- Flatpak
- tar.xz / Tarball - broaden to file compression?
- AppImage
- Snap
- Bloat
- Free Open Source Software / Free, Libre Open Source Software (FOSS/FLOSS)
- Privacy
- Ownership
- Security
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.
- Git
- GitHub
- Kernel
- Bash
- Shell
- TTY
- Kernel Module
- Compositor
- Wayland
- Xorg
- X11
- Xwayland - all three of the X's in one place? All in compositor, even?
- Compiling
- Building
- License - put GPL in here?
- General Public License [vX] (GPL vX)
- GNU - same place as GPL?
- Hacking