A Linux terminal has a lot more features than the TeleType of yore. On a TeleType, text spews out and scrolls up and is gone forever. A real terminal can use escape characters to do navigate around ...
Your terminal doesn't have to look like a boring block of white-on-black text. Personalizing it so much easier than it seems.
I've used Windows for decades, but I tried Linux to see if it's truly 'easy' now - and one thing surprised me ...