The terminal that you normally access in a Linux distro is called the Pseudo-Terminal. If you run the command:

$ tty

at the system prompt, it should report something like the following in stdout:

/dev/pts/0

indicating that you are in a pseudo-terminal (pts). See man pts and man tty for more information. If, on the other hand, you run the command:

$ who

the stdout will look something like the following:

<your user> tty7         2023-05-28 22:30 (:0)