Translations:Tutorials/Open a console/3/en

When asking for help you may be told to "open a console" or "open a terminal" - they are the same thing. Why would you want to? Well, sometimes something doesn't behave as expected. When you use a GUI (graphical user interface) to do something, you don't know why it failed. If you open a terminal and try to do the same thing from the command-line, you will get a lot of text showing while the command is working, and what it reports will help people to help you find the problem.