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> Vast majority of users (especially on Windows) don't understand the difference between console, terminal What is the difference between these on Windows?

ivanjermakov 3y ago
I think in modern times these two can be used interchangeably, even in Linux. I listed it because it adds to the terminology confusion.
- rewmie 3y ago
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- hulitu 3y ago
  No, they cannot. Your tty4 or xterm underestand different commands than your shell.
  - appplication 3y ago
    Perhaps there is a more ideal world in which these converge because I cannot for the life of me understand why we need all of these concurrently. Tangential, tty is also a term that can and should be left in the past.
  - dataflow 3y ago
    >>> the difference between console, terminal >> these two can be used interchangeably, even in Linux. > No, they cannot. Your tty4 or xterm underestand different commands than your shell. I think you're replying to an imaginary comment? The question was about console vs. terminal, not terminal vs. shell.
rewmie 3y ago
> What is the difference between these on Windows? A command line interface (CLI), as the name implies, is a user interface pattern consisting of an application that you pass arguments to it through the command line to form a request/command to be executed by the application. This type of user interface also covers features such as exit code and text input/output through standard streams as to allow programs to be compostable through pipes. For example, '$ cp origin rest', '$ grep -Ri foo /opt | sort', etc. A terminal user interface (TUI) is a type of user interface which uses a terminal's limited features to provide a windowed user interface that supports interactivity. For example, see apps like vim, fdisk, etc.
- dataflow 3y ago
  I was asking about console vs. terminal. Not CLI vs. TUI (?)
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ivanjermakov 3y ago

I think in modern times these two can be used interchangeably, even in Linux. I listed it because it adds to the terminology confusion.

rewmie 3y ago
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hulitu 3y ago
No, they cannot. Your tty4 or xterm underestand different commands than your shell.
- appplication 3y ago
  Perhaps there is a more ideal world in which these converge because I cannot for the life of me understand why we need all of these concurrently. Tangential, tty is also a term that can and should be left in the past.
- dataflow 3y ago
  >>> the difference between console, terminal >> these two can be used interchangeably, even in Linux. > No, they cannot. Your tty4 or xterm underestand different commands than your shell. I think you're replying to an imaginary comment? The question was about console vs. terminal, not terminal vs. shell.

rewmie 3y ago

> What is the difference between these on Windows? A command line interface (CLI), as the name implies, is a user interface pattern consisting of an application that you pass arguments to it through the command line to form a request/command to be executed by the application. This type of user interface also covers features such as exit code and text input/output through standard streams as to allow programs to be compostable through pipes. For example, '$ cp origin rest', '$ grep -Ri foo /opt | sort', etc. A terminal user interface (TUI) is a type of user interface which uses a terminal's limited features to provide a windowed user interface that supports interactivity. For example, see apps like vim, fdisk, etc.

dataflow 3y ago
I was asking about console vs. terminal. Not CLI vs. TUI (?)

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