Clearing the confusion between - Terminal vs Shell vs Commandline vs Prompt

Terminal
- It is a program/app that is loaded on the screen.
- A window that opens when you open terminal app.
- Terminals: gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, konsole, st, alacritty etc.
- You can install and use different terminal apps.

Shell
- Used for interpreting commands from the user.
- Type "echo $0" in terminal to know what shell you are using.
- You can switch to other shells by installing it from terminal.
- Shells: sh, dash, bash, zsh, fish

Command Line (Interface)
- Interface where you interact with computers using lines of text.
- Use Telegram: Open Terminal app > type "telegram-desktop" > Press Enter
- Install Updates: Open Terminal app > type "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade" > Press Enter

Prompt
- The text that you see when you open terminal.
- By default it should show [username]@[hostname][directory0][:][prompt sign]
- Example: alex@linuxmint~:$
- Username : The name of the current user logged into the system
- Hostname : The name of the computer currently in use.
- Directory : The path of the directory the terminal is opened in
- Prompt Sign : It shows "$" for non-root user and "#" for root user.
- You can customize your prompt to add date, git branch, exit status etc.

Thanks to Prathamesh.

Full Circle Magazine #162 - https://fullcirclemagazine.org/2020/10/30/full-circle-magazine-162/

LM Monthly News – October 2020
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3978

A Short Summary For Busy

Chromium
The Chromium browser is now available in the official repositories for both Linux Mint and LMDE.
To guarantee reactivity and timely updates we had to automate the process of detecting, packaging and compiling new versions of Chromium.

IPTV
It’s still too soon to say whether this will be part of Linux Mint and how much we can focus on its development, but we got enough enthusiasm here to get the project started and build a prototype called Hypnotix.

Favorites
Do you often work on the same files? Do you rely on bookmarks and “recents” to find them? We are working on something which will help you access your favorite files faster than before.

Cinnamon
CJS 4.8 will use the newer Mozjs78. This was requested by other distributions and it makes Cinnamon easier to maintain outside of Linux Mint. In all distributions, including our own, this also results in slightly better performance, in particular during the startup phase.

Another Day Another Good News

With our group now more than an year old, we have decided to thank two of the most helpful persons in our community. ❣️

It's Cryptodan and William Johnson 😃

They had helped us all at many instances of our Linux and Computing Journey. So to thank them back, we are honoring them with a Title. 👑

Since finding good techy names was difficult, we loaned two fitting words from Greek. 😁
👉 Idiofyia : Genius
👉 Eidikos : Expert

Once again, thank you dear Dan and William for your contributions to the community.
We hope your supporting tendency encourages more members to come up like you. 🙂

But wait, such honoring of helping members will continue in future. Who knows, the next noscript winner could be you. 😉

The future is filled with surprises. ✨

What is Grub in Linux? What is it Used for?
Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB
ItsFOSS : https://itsfoss.com/what-is-grub/

Disk Partitions
MBR vs GPT

Things to consider when dual booting Windows & Linux

Desktop/Laptop UEFI/BIOS Settings
1. Secure Boot : Disabled
2. Fast Boot : Disabled
3. Boot Mode : UEFI (if it supports, else BIOS/Legacy)

HDD/SSD Partition Table
1. For UEFI : GPT
2. For BIOS : MBR (MSDOS)

Windows 10 Settings
1. Hibernation/Fast Startup : Disabled
2. Open CMD as Admin, type "powercfg -h off"

After these settings are applied, install any Linux distro in dual boot configuration.

Full Circle Magazine #163 -
https://fullcirclemagazine.org/2020/11/27/full-circle-magazine-163/

Linux Mint Monthly News

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3983

This month's post covers about features of Hypnotix.

Linux Mint language translation status. You can check the list for the situation in your language.
Select the link "View all languages" and you will see all languages. You can help. Create an account and join the Mint Translators.
https://translations.launchpad.net/linuxmint

Language/ Status/ Last Changed
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Serbian Latin 100.0% 2 hours ago
Italian 100.0% 17 hours ago
German 100.0% 13 hours ago
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Catalan 100.0% 16 hours ago
Finnish 99% 13 hours ago
Croatian 99% 15 hours ago
Portuguese 99% 19 hours ago
Ukrainian 99% 5 hours ago
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Kabyle 99% 13 hours ago
Basque 99% 2020-11-28
Czech 99% 2020-11-30
Romanian 98% 2020-11-28
Serbian 98% 2020-11-29
Lithuanian 98% 2020-11-26
French 98% 2020-11-25
Indonesian 98% 2020-11-11
Hungarian 98% 2020-10-07
Esperanto 98% 2020-10-23
Brazilian (PT) 98% 2020-10-11
Russian 98% 2020-09-23
Greek 98% 2020-09-07
English(UK) 98% 2020-09-11
Polish 98% 2020-11-24
Chinese (HK) 98% 2020-07-26
Japanese 97% 15 hours ago
Interlingua 97% 2020-09-29
Korean 96% 2020-10-19
Bulgarian 96% 2020-06-26
Estonian 95% 2020-09-09
Icelandic 95% 2020-10-21
Chinese (Simplified) 95% 2020-07-24
Hebrew 93% 2020-11-26
Amharic 92% 8 hours ago
Arabic 91% 2020-11-26
Slovak 91% 2020-10-17
Chinese (Traditional) 91% 2020-09-30
Slovenian 81% 2020-07-23
Welsh 78% 1 hour ago
Hindi 77% 2020-11-19
Norwegian Bokmal 76% 2020-01-05
Thai 73% 2019-11-26
Vietnamese 67% 2020-11-19
Occitan 62% 2020-09-28
Galician 61% 2019-10-20
French (Canada) 59% 2020-09-26
Urdu 57% 2019-11-26
Belarusian 56% 2020-01-04
Malay 51% 2019-10-04
Latvian 51% 2019-08-08
Catalan (Valencian) 50% 2019-02-20
Interlingue 49% 2019-05-12
Tamil 48% 2020-08-24
Asturian 44% 2017-09-06
Punjabi 42% 2018-03-25
Bengali 40% 2020-09-29
Albanian 39% 2019-12-21
Afrikaans 38% 2020-06-13
Gaelic Scottish 38% 2020-11-30
Kazakh 38% 2020-05-26
Marathi 37% 2020-01-11
Malayalam 37% 2020-09-29
Kannada 35% 2020-09-29
Low German 35% 2020-04-11
Uzbek 33% 2020-09-29
Azerbaijani 32% 2020-04-06
Bosnian 32% 2018-03-14
Kurdish 32% 2019-12-04
Persian 30% 2019-11-08
Tajik 28% 2018-10-06
Norwegian 28% 2020-08-14
Telugu 27% 2017-09-06
Gujarati 26% 2017-09-06
Nepali 26% 2019-08-20
Macedonian 25% 2019-12-25
Irish 23% 2019-11-12
Assamese 23% 2020-03-16
English (Canada) 22% 2020-01-06
Sardinian 20% 2018-12-01
Khmer 20% 2018-07-25
Oriya 20% 2017-09-06
English (Australia) 19% 2020-01-05
Maithili 19% 2020-05-11
Dzongkha 15% 2017-09-06
Uyghur 12% 2017-09-06
Sinhalese 12% 2020-04-26
Standard Moroccan Tamazight 12% 2020-11-28
Xhosa 11% 2017-09-06
Breton 11% 2017-09-06
Kirghiz 11% 2017-07-14
Abkhazian 11% 2016-02-09
Georgian 10% 2020-08-03
Malagasy 10% 2017-09-06
Pashto 9% 2017-09-06
Lao 8% 2018-05-09
Neapolitan 8% 2017-08-21
Filipino 7% 2017-10-05
Zulu 7% 2017-09-06
Armenian 6% 2018-06-11
Frisian 6% 2019-09-27
Tagalog 6% 2016-06-26
Manx 5% 2016-04-08
Oromo 5% 2016-06-26
Burmese 5% 2018-04-27
Papiamento 5% 2016-10-12
Mongolian 4% 2017-09-06
Javanese 4% 2018-01-18
Somali 4% 2017-01-03
Tsonga 4% 2016-06-26
Faroese 4% 2020-03-09
Walloon 4% 2017-09-06
Kashubian 4% 2017-09-06
Latin 4% 2020-11-27
Scots 3% 2020-05-29
Friulian 3% 2020-11-26
Aragonese 3% 2017-07-14
Kashmiri 3% 2016-02-09
Franco-Provençal 2% 2017-07-14
Tatar 2% 2018-07-19
Turkmen 2% 2017-09-06
Kinyarwanda 1% 2017-09-06
Berber 1% 2020-09-19
Yiddish 0.74% 2020-08-02
Walser 0.60% 2019-05-04
Silesian 0.54% 2019-06-07
Venetian 0.48% 2020-11-26
Swahili 0.38% 2020-10-24

Thanks to Kimmo Kujansuu 😄

ls command explained

https://distrotest.net/index.php

A website to test out new distros.

On our website you will find many operating systems,
which you can test directly online without a installation.

There are no restrictions for the operating system:
You can use all functions of the system,
Uninstall and install software, test installed programs and
even delete or format the hard disk or system files...

Christmas is almost here, and so is Mint 20.1.
A few minutes ago Clem posted the Cinnamon iso as "Being tested".
https://community.linuxmint.com/iso

According to https://community.linuxmint.com/iso all 3 versions of Mint 20.1 have now been "Approved for BETA release". On your local mirror soon.

Linux Mint 20.1 Beta ISOs are now available

https://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/

Linux Mint 20.1 Features

https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_ulyssa_cinnamon_whatsnew.php

mintCast 350 - Rocky Road Ahead
https://mintcast.org/2020/12/17/mintcast-350-rocky-road-ahead-mp3/

How to install & use QEMU+KVM and virt-manager

Alternative to Virtualbox and VMWare on Linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdSiJTGKLM

Getting started with REFIND a modern bootloader designed for UEFI systems


https://teejeetech.in/2020/09/05/linux-multi-boot-with-refind/