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      22 hours ago

      Well no, the terminal is a software like any other. It just is sometimes more final about doing things (e.g. rm <file> will delete without asking twice) and you cab start other software from it or use within.

      There are multiple layers between you and your hardware, rings of userspace (Starting with Ring 3) and at the end Kernel (Ring 0)