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Userland is anything outside of the kernel, that users [[process]]es of a system have access to.

Processes live for a short time in userland (milliseconds) before being context switched by the [[kernel]].  This means that the kernel cleans up this process and lets another process have a go at being run.  Usually only one process can run at the same time unless there is multiple cores/cpus which is the case nowadays.