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Desktop: Windows type Graphical User Interface (GUI) - Graphics based interactions between the user and the operating system.

Terminal: Program that opens a window to runs a:

Shell which is a command interpreter that processes the typed commands.
- Interface to the OS.
- Provides a Command-Line Interface (CLI) – written/text-based input and output.
- Different Shells share common commands, but syntax and behavior can be different.

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