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  • It’s perfectly clear.

    Linux Terminal = A terminal emulator program which can run a shell on top of a version of the Linux kernel, featuring a shell commonly found on Linux OSes, e.g. Bash or Zsh, featuring something like Bash builtins, some GNU Coreutils for the userland, a package manager like apt and support for at least some additional common packages, accounting for architectural differences of course.

    E.g. Bash in Konsole on Debian meets all the criteria. “Git Bash” on Windows meets some of this criteria. WSL meets almost all of this criteria. Termux meets a few. PowerShell on Windows in Windows Terminal meets none