I don’t understand why this has been such a big issue that i am being reprimanded by two different moderators. There is a button on the bottom left corner of my screen and when i click on it, a menu with apps pop up. What is wrong calling it the start menu? If microsoft sues, give them my ip address 
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“Reprimanded” is a big word. “Corrected” would be more accurate. 
If everyone were to follow your logic, then soon everyone is going to start referring to everything within GNU/Linux by terms applicable only to another and completely unrelated operating system.
In my case for instance, it would prevent me from helping anyone anymore, because I don’t use that other operating system, and therefore, I am not familiar with most of its vernacular.
It may sound ridiculous, but I have in the past already been wondering what people meant when they were talking of their file explorer when referring to dolphin, or their task bar when they’re really talking about the whole panel, and not the task manager widget on said panel. And then I’m not even getting into people referring to the first partition on their drive — and mind you, this is not a Windows partition — as their C: drive.
If you wish to stick to Windows vernacular, then your brain is also automatically going to be utilizing Windows logic in an operating system that — luckily! — doesn’t have anything to do with Windows and was designed very differently, and then by definition, you will be denying yourself the chance to learn about GNU/Linux and use it successfully.
It’s an entirely different paradigm, and unlike what many newbies believe, GNU/Linux was not created as an alternative to Microsoft Windows. It was created as an alternative to the proprietary flavors of UNIX from the likes of Santa Cruz Operations, IBM, Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation (acquired by Compaq, and then Compaq was acquired by HP) and other big players in the IT industry.
Microsoft Windows wasn’t even a standalone operating system yet — it was a graphical user interface on top of a non-networked, single-user, single-tasking 16-bit operating system — while all of the aforementioned were already powering minicomputers, supercomputers and mainframes.
Again, this is not a reprimand — the above is for your edification only. 
Oh, and by the way, not only do I not have any Start Menu, but there also isn’t anything in the bottom left of my screen, other than a “hot corner” for locking the screen — another gratuitous screenshot follows below. 
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Start menu is a common slang for the menu you might open with your Super (Windows logo) key. Regular IT support staff would know what the user means by that, regardless of the OS …
Yes, because regular IT support…
- is supposed to be OS-agnostic; and…
- probably grew up on Microsoft Windows.
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Not on my computer. Pressing that key (the Super or Meta Key) by itself does nothing. Moving my mouse to the Top Left Hand corner of my screen, on the other hand, opens the ‘Application Launcher’, which in my case is the Application Dashboard Widget.
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On mine, the left Meta brings up the Application Dashboard — so does clicking the circle on the left in the top panel, as well as stabbing the mouse into the top left corner — and the one on the right is set up as a compose key.
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kirigami-6.14.0-1.1 should fix this with MR1803 and MR1804 merged …