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Revision as of 03:52, 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 categories that a new user should learn about upon interacting with Linux for the first time.
- Linux
- Distro
- DE / WM
- Display Manager
- KDE / Plasma
- Gnome
- Package Manager
- Ricing
- Repo / Repository
- Script
- Command
- Package
- Program
- CLI
- TUI
- GUI
- Drivers
- Flatpak
- Tar.xz / Tarball
- AppImage
- Snap
- Bloat
- FOSS / FLOSS
- Open Source
- 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
- Compiling
- Building
- License
- GPL / GPLv3
- GNU
- Hacking
- apt
- pacman
- zypper
- dnf
- rpm