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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What's your favorite terminal? (lemmy.ml)

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I'm looking for a new terminal. What's your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah. But would you rather a GUI that stores the settings in easy to read and manipulate plain text files; Linux, or an archaic GUI that manipulates raw data and often breaks and is hard to understand; Windows registry.
Even if you prefer GUIs, you'd probably still want the data stored in plain text files for the sake of simplicity and consistency.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I prefer text files. What I meant is that not everyone does. That people like Konsole more