Terminal & Command Line

Home Directory

What It Is

Your personal folder on the computer (where your Documents, Desktop, etc. live)

Your apartment in the building. Other users have their own apartments

Home Directory (~)

Texting your computer instead of using a touchscreen. Faster once you know the language, but you need to know what to say

The drive-thru vs. walking into the restaurant. You speak your order instead of pointing at the menu

A text message to your computer — short, specific, expects a response

Ordering a burger "with no onions" — the burger is the command, "no onions" is the flag