... The terminology is the part this noob has issues with![]()
I think you've hit the nail on the head there. We tend to use more generalized terms because there are so many choices. The we turn around and use laboriously specific terms to avoid confusion. It's no wonder new users' heads spin a little.
While doing application support a few years back, I was speaking with a remote user
Me: What web browser are you using?
User:What do you mean?"
Me: What do you click on to open the window to go to google.com?
User: Oh... I just click on the internet.
They had no concept of "web browser" / firefox / chrome / IE / edge and no idea that "internet" is not synonymous with "web" - they just didn't have the vocabulary for any of that. And that's probably about the easiest of the terminology issues to be faced by a linux noob coming from the MS Windows world.
Just starting at the very top, to a new Windows refugee, there's "Windows, Linux and Mac" whereas, to a Linux user, there's "hundreds of Linux operating systems (distros), a half dozen or so Windows operating systems and God knows what from Apple".
BTW, I've been using linux for twenty plus years and still feel like a rank noob in some respects, so I guess there are varying levels of noobity.