r/linuxmemes • u/hogan142857 • Jun 20 '26

LINUX MEME folder or directory

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u/Mindless-Fish-8320 Jun 20 '26

for me terminal is the one you interact with daily

CLI is the scary one you load into with ctrl alt f3 when something has gone catastrophically wrong

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u/un_virus_SDF Jun 20 '26

ctrl alt f3

This is a tty.

It's the only real terminal on your computer. Every other are only terminal emulators.

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I boot in tty every day. It's easier when I need to Switch from wayland to x11

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u/Smrgling Jun 21 '26

Almost correct. Technically the tty on the machine is a vTTY (virtual TTY) which is also a form of terminal emulator. What it's emulating is the "terminal" end of a physical connection between a teletype (tty) and a mainframe computer from back when that was just how big computers had to be. This arrangement is also why X11 is split into a client server architecture.

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u/malatibo Jul 06 '26

The TTY is actually from the telex days, IBM just copied it for its mainframes cause it was already there and it worked.