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I have no idea what shell means either! Isn’t it called ricing to customize desktop environment? Since when do people started calling it shell?

I'm not sure about Linux, but on Windows it's been called that since forever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_shell

I wonder where where LiteStep is at

used it (and sometimes SharpE) for a number of years until about idk 20y ago