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Introduction

New user engaging with the Linux and the open-source ecosystem for the first time will likely encounter a significant amount of new terminology. This is an 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 user engaging with the Linux and the open-source ecosystem for the first time will likely encounter a significant amount of new terminology. This is an list of subjects that new users may wish to become familiar with upon delving into more advanced Linux usage.
+== Terms ==
 * [[Bloat]]
 * [[CLI|Command-Line Interface (CLI)]]