to give a definition of a term that some of our audience may not have come across. So if you're new to Linux or new to command line, you may see that the term ncurses is used. And that is a way on a text-based terminal of giving you a graphical way of interacting with the program from the terminal. So it's not exactly command line when you're using the ncurses interface, but it is terminal-based. So that's what he means when he says ncurses. Oh, okay. Well, I don't know. I mean, I know we don't do a lot with the terminal or command line because we're kind of aimed at the new user. And whereas sometimes you can do things a lot faster via the command line, I find that I just use the GUI. And you'll hear that term. And just to explain that, that's a graphical user interface, just like Windows or MATE or any of the others, KDE. It's the interface that you use to get things done on the computer. I don't think it's a bad thing, but I don't think that's something that someone moving straight (8/49)
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