@iSeth For most Linux users, due to historical reasons, there IS a distinction between a tty, terminal, virtual terminal and shell. If I am in a gui, I can open Gnome-terminal as a virtual terminal to use a shell. There is a big distinction in many users mind. tty1 (accessed via Alt-F1 or CTRL-ALT-F1 is a terminal (even I am not old enough to think of it as a "teletypewriter"), while zsh, tcsh and Bash are shells.

@DaimyoKirby And Ubuntu is not a GNU/Linux?

@DaimyoKirby So the main support site for the most popular GNU/Linux distribution does not have a tag (and does not "need" one) for one of the landmark features of a Linux/UNIX system?

@ObsessiveSSOℲ I was not asking for extra permissions. I was just trying to figure out why I was unable to create the shell tag even though I had the requisite reputation (> 300).

@MarcoCeppi Can you please expand on why you don't think this tag is needed?

I too recoil in horror about mixing the two tags and concepts together.

BTW the site FAQ and instructions imply that anybody with > 300 reputation/Karma can create tags but the system does seem to still prevent me from doing so. Either extend me the privileges or else correct the FAQs/Instructions.

Does not work cleanly when one is talking generically or asking about shells.