Open a Terminal. Three words that are enough to send Windows users scurrying back to Microsoftland. But why, wonders Linux User & Developer’s Simon Brew? I’m guessing that many of you hear this too. There you are, chatting to people about Linux, and why they don’t use it, and sooner or later you’ll stumble across one of the more regular answers. The Terminal window. That window of joy that to the untrained eye looks like we’ve gone back to the days of DOS, typing in laborious commands to get every job done.