From the course: Complete Guide to Navigating Linux: Working with Users, Files, and Networks

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Shell overview

Shell overview - Linux Tutorial

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Shell overview

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- In this video, you'll learn about one of the most important features in Linux, the shell. Desktop Linux normally comes with a graphical shell and GNOME, as we have already seen, is a default graphical shell. Then are all the graphical shells as well, such as KDE, but Ubuntu, it's simple, it'll be GNOME. If you want to work with commands, you need a bash shell. That's a command line environment. Now server based Linux starts with a console as we have just seen, and this console is offering a bash shell. And from GNOME you can select terminal to run a bash shell. And mastering Linux means mastering the bash shell. So that is what we are going to focus on. Let me show you how we can access the shell from the graphical environment. So this is what the default graphical environment looks like. Before I'm showing you the shell. There's one quick fix and that is the screensaver. By default, the screensavers become active after five minutes and you will need to enter your password all the…

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