The Terminal

_{(Also known as the Big Scary Ugly Advanced Fancy Interactive Textbox)}

Question

What's the terminal? Why would I use it?

The terminal is takes some time to learn. There's no getting around it. It looks like a big box of text and you can't use your mouse. But using it unlocks ✨special abilities✨ from any computer you're using:

• Building and Deploying the robot code without WPILib or any other software.
• Previewing this website as you edit it
• (ugly) Github!
• Browse files (including on the Roborio and systemcore)
• Installing anything you could think of
• Uninstalling your operating system and everything else

To put it shortly - you can do anything on your computer with the terminal, ... as long as you take the time to learn how.

What's covered in this section:

• Almost Everything mentioned above

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_{This is why the driverstations are Windows computers and not Linux computers}