Everyone needs to learn Linux
like right now, like yesterday, especially if you're in it. I don't care if you're on the help desk
or you're a network engineer or a system engineer or you're a programmer
or you want to become a hacker, you need to know Linux. It's a
required skill. Now, it just is. It's become this expectation
that if you are in it at all, that you have some basic understanding
of how the command line works and how Linux works and what [inaudible] turn to live. [inaudible] if you learn it now, you will be
rare. You'll have a rare skill, but if you wait too long,
you'll get left behind. Trust me and the earlier
the better. I mean, get your kids to start learning Linux.
I'm teaching my kids right now. In fact, they're going to help me
make this video. Hold up. What is this Linux thing and why is it
so important that you need to learn it and how in the world do you even learn
Linux? Well, good news. In this video, we're going to take the first few steps
to help you learn just a little bit of Linux, which is really all you need. And then we'll talk about the steps to
propel you to become a Linux master. With the help of my
good buddy Shawn powers, a Linux expert cover what certifications
you need from the Linux plus to the red hat certified administrator. So yeah,
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I have a challenge for you. So if you stick around to the end
of the video, I have a challenge, a Linux challenge, a test your skills, and the first 10 people to post a secret
phrase I'm looking for in the comments. We'll win a Linux training course
from David bumble. So yeah, it's cool. So stick around until the end or just
jump to there real quick and be the first. I'll be the first to admit Linux
is scary, like really scary. Like when you look at Lenox
versus like windows or Macko Wes, it really is different too
because you're on a black screen. Ty just typing all you see your words.
Nothing gooey, nothing to click. It's kind of kind of unsettling. It's
really different from what we're used to, which is why a lot of
people shy away from it. I absolutely want to assure everybody
Linux is not that big of a deal, but you know it's just
an operating system. Everything from your smart phone
to your laptop, to your car, to your refrigerator, to
your toaster, to your toilet. The all at the arts smart, they
have an operating system. Yes, your toilet might be running Linux. The operating system is just the manager
of the hardware resources on your device. So for example, when you want
to play candy crush or Pokemon go, you've launched those apps. Those
apps talk to the operating system, which in this case would be apple ios on
the iPhone and then the apple Ios will talk to the hardware and he kinda, he's got all the middleman and we need
him because he speaks the language of the hardware. So we have the operating systems we
know and love and use all the time. We have windows, we have
Macko, west, Ios, android. But where does Lenox come into
play? Do you even use Linux? Probably not. Well probably not on purpose
cause you kind use Linux every day. If I were to ask you what you thought the
most popular operating system ever was right now, you'd probably
say like windows, but you're on the most popular
operating system by far. Like it's, I even said I have a competition is Linux. You're watching me on
Linux right now? Yes. Youtube is run on Linux servers. Netflix, if you just finished binge watching
stranger things like I did and Netflix is run on Linux. In fact, the top
1 million websites in the world, 96% of them are run on Linux.
So it's a pretty big deal. But why Linux? Why is it this big
deal? Why is everyone using it? Well, there's one big reason it's free. It's free to use freedom
mess with an edit. It's a what we call open source. So
you can go look at the code for Linux. You can change it and edit it the way
you want to to make it great for your application. So Netflix will use a version of Linux
that you will be totally foreign to us. You can change it and make it your own. That's why there are so many
different flavors of Linux. We'll cover that here in a bit.
Okay, fine. Linux is a big deal, but why should we learn it? Why should
you as a regular Joe or regular Brittany? I don't know how they, I don't
know the female version of that. Why should you as an it person
learn Linux? Two reasons only two. This is one is that it runs on
everything and I'm talking everything. We just covered that. But I mean really every smart device
in your home right now runs Linux. Your Tesla runs Linux. Do you have
a Tesla? I want a Tesla android. The Eos on most of the phones in the
world is pretty much Linux and it, we're pushing a lot of our
infrastructure to the cloud. So servers and everything
can go into the cloud. Most of the servers in the cloud
are Linux. Even Microsoft's cloud, Azure, you can run Linux there
too. So it's, it's everywhere. And reason one leads us to reason to
number two is that Linux is kind of scary and that's the reason you should learn.
That doesn't make any sense. But it, I will, I'll explain most it engineers shy
away from it because it does have that initial barrier. It looks weird. It's
not the, it's not what we're used to. It's not what we learned in
school. In school, we have a mouse, we click things and we things
pop up and open and Linux, we're just sitting there at
command line typing things. It doesn't feel right and that my friends
is a perfect recipe for a rare skill, a skill that you can demand lots
of money for. And I'll say this. If you know Linux and you know it well, you instantly have a ton of
street cred in the IT industry. That's kind of the thing with lemon. If you put Linux on your
resume for any it job, you're going to look like a
total stud. I mean really, and I mean if it makes me look
good, look in the shirt, right? People still like kind
of respect me. You know, if you see a guy sitting in a terminal
typing away, you're like, wow, that guy's amazing. Sean Powers told me how he got a
job as a windows database admin. He didn't have any experience
as a windows database Admin, but he knew Linux and they thought, well, this guy knows Lennox so he can easily
pick up windows database administration. When I say that, it makes you
employable for other jobs. It's true. The last job I had before, it was
a full time trainer at CBT nuggets. I was a database manager for a college
that used a Microsoft SQL for all of their stuff. And I got the job not
because I had Microsoft sequel experience, but because I was an all around it guy
and I had Linux experience and that made me look valuable so that I can help
make decisions. That's the thought. If people think, if you know
Linux, you can know anything. You can learn anything kind of the, the,
the thought that if you make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's what
Linux does for us in the IT industry. It gives you a ton of street
credit. But again, it's scary. So how do we get past the scariness? How do we get past the thing that maybe
I'm not smart enough to learn? Lennox. I'm not one of those weird
wizards or anything like that. You don't have to be when I assure you
that the slight learning curve to get into being comfort there will
make you the awesome version. Who's not afraid of command line. Um, it's worth it that that's why it's because
of that learning curve is so steep. Just at first that everybody's
afraid of it. And so, um, it to the point where a lot of people
like hate Linux, Linux is so stupid. Why would I use Linux? And it's
because they don't know, right? It's fear and I get that. But I assure
you, if I can use Linux on a daily basis, so can you, the barrier to learning
Linux is not climbing this huge mountain. It's just a little boop bump in the road.
That's all it is. Just a little bump. If you can get past that little bump
and start getting the command line and typing a few things, it'll
be smooth sailing. Seriously.
It'll be a smooth ride. I know you don't believe me. So we're
going to do it right now. Let's do it. And my kids are going to help
me. We were on a mission. We went to micro center to pick up a
raspberry pie floor. So we did that. So yeah, go ahead and
watch that. Go. Alright. On our way to micro center to pick
up some pie, you guys want some pie? We're on a mission to learn some Linux
and we're gonna get some raspberry pies where you can learn anything in
it. You gotta drink some coffee. It's just the rules. Okay. Yes it is. I am. Can you go try? I, I like it. Welcome to the micro center.
We've got a pod baby. Eat it with eat it. The best way to learn anything is to get
your hands on it as soon as you can and start playing with it right away. And
that's why I love Linux because it's free. So you can just go get it right
now. But then where do you put it? That could be a challenge. Well, one of the ways I recommend is going
to pick up one of these bad boys. This is a raspberry Pi, one
of the smallest computers
you can buy. The new one, the raspberry Pi four just came out.
It's about the size of a credit card, but you can run some things on
this. Um, you can play Minecraft, you can learn Linux, you
can learn python, you can, you can do all kinds of stuff on this. And the beauty of it is it's only $35
you throw Linux on this and you can just start learning Lennox on
a little bit of computer. Now you don't have to get this.
You can learn Linux another way, like free right now at this very
moment. Let me show you a few options, so apart from getting a raspberry pie,
which is my favorite way to learn Linux, I do have my top two ways and
it's always free, always free. The first is where we're at right
now. We're in a cloud infrastructure. We're in Microsoft Azure, which
might sound like a weird thing, go to Microsoft to learn Linux, but they have partnered together
and it's amazing. In fact, both of my options include
Microsoft oddly enough, so you can go sign up for a free Microsoft
Azure account and deploy a Ubuntu server and play around with it as
much as you want it your server. Plus you get to learn a little bit about
the cloud, which is also a very cool. My second favorite way
is also with Microsoft, but it's with windows 10 no, it is not a dual boot where you have to
shut down your computer and reboot into Lennox. No, no, no. Lennox runs on
windows 10 it's crazy. Check this out. Oh, I love technology. So check
it out. This is crazy. If you are running windows 10
Microsoft partnered with canonical, the company that runs Ubuntu and all that, and you can install Linux
on windows 10 and it works. So there's only two steps. You really
need to do a performance first. You'll take this command right here, copy its launch powershell as an
admin and then paste it in there. This will enable your windows 10 machine
to run Linux and then after this you go to the app store. It's that
simple. Search for a store, go to the windows 10 app
store or windows app store. Literally searched for Linux and you get this. Well it makes
on windows. Yeah, totally. And look at the options. Oh my
gosh. So many flavors of Linux. You're going to get tired
of it. Cali Linux would, you can actually hack things with,
that's a hacking offensive security tool. I mean just look at all these unreal. So what I want to do right
now is installed you been
to 18 and just like that it's installing [inaudible] and that was it. And I'm just going
to launch it and wants me to launch. Of course I want to launch and now I
can just create a username and password. So network chuck, this
is Linux. I'm in there. I'm running Lennox on windows 10
oh my gosh. Can you believe this? This is crazy. So I took my daughter
Chloe, she's eight years old by the way. I took her through the steps to install
Lennox on a raspberry pi two together. We're going to learn something called
Linux and you're going to enter someone next command. You're going to
show people that learning Lennox. Isn't that scary? And you're going
to do it for me. Okay, don't drop it. There you go. Now we're installing raspy and a flavor
of Linux on our raspberry Pi and we'll wait for it to finish and then also
install a web server and get it up and running. It's, yeah, this is,
this is Linux command line. Okay. You're installing a web server,
Chloe. That was her baby steps. That was the bump and I want to
take you through that as well. So whatever you can get your hands on,
you can go and download Ubuntu right now. You can get it the on your windows
10 machine, like super easy. It takes five minutes. You can go
buy a raspberry Pi. So your kids in, you can play with it. Get Linux
to is like the most friendly one. And let's build a web server real
quick. Let's do it. Okay, here we go. Scary Linux. Let's do this. Okay, so the first thing we're going to do
is we're going to update everything. So we'll enter the command pseudo.
Now this command, pseudo is weird. Pseudo is like saying I am
in charge, I am the admin. And when I say after this should happen, you're giving yourself permission
on windows. You do the same thing. You just say run as administrator
here. You say pseudo. My daughter got a real big kick out of
that and we'll enter the command apt dash get update, it'll ask
you for your password. And now all you're doing is
updating something right now, but you look like a total boss to
everyone else right now. Right? Okay. That took about a minute and not too
bad. Now time to install a web server, we're going to install
the Apache web server, a very popular Linux-based web server. So we'll again enter your pseudo and
then apt this time we'll do install and then we'll just say Apache
two. What are we doing here? What we're giving ourselves
permission pseudo. And then we're installing Apache too.
And once we hit enter, that's it. Okay. It'll say, do you want to
install this? I'm a heck yeah, I do hit y and then enter. Okay. And that's it. The web server is
installed. It's almost ready to go. If you're running a raspberry Pi
and you ran those same commands, it's already done, uh,
on Ubuntu anywhere else. You might have to actually start the
service. So I'll just enter the command. Pseudo once again, service Apache to start and this will
start our web server and that's it. That's it. That's it. Now you just created a website
to see that website in action. If you're on a windows 10 machine or
you're on the raspberry Pi right now, just go to a browser
and type in local hosts and there it is. You're
accessing the website right now. Now it's not the prettiest of websites,
it's just the Ubuntu default page. What do you want to change it? While
we can do that, it says right here, you should replace this file as this
file right here. The index, the html. This is where that files located. And we can go in there and
edit the way this page looks. I have my daughter do the
same thing, so let's do it. So we're going to jump into that
directory. So jump into that directory. We'll do CV change directory and we'll
go into the directory of Var and go into w a CML. That's where we want
to be. We're there. That was it. We changed directories as like
changing a directory in, in, in a windows file explorer.
Now we'll see what's in there. We'll do the command ls to list. Hey, there's that file index dot html crazy
right now what we want to do is remove that and create a new one. So I want to enter the command again
pseudo to give myself a master genie permission here. The command RM, which is just remove index dot html. That's going to remove that file done. So if I do ls again to list
nothing there, I removed. Now we're going to recreate that
file and do what we want with it. So I'll do again pseudo this time
I'll use a program called Nano Nano. My toddler loved that to create
a new file and edit this file. So I'll do pseudo nano index dot html. So what I'm doing now is I'm creating
that file and then I'm jumping into it to edit and I'm there and this is where we
can put the html for our website. Now this will not be a course on html, but if you want to throw something
in there just real quick, you can go to Google like
I'm about to do right now. If I can type it right, just type in the certain
basic html website and just
click on the one that says html editors w three
school at places. Great. Look on that and I'm right
down here. Just take this, copy that and paste that in there. I'm going to change what it says
real quick and then that's it, so I'll do control x to get out of there
and I'll say, do you want to save this? I'll see y for yes had
entered a confirmed. You're going to name this
index dot html and that was it. If we do ls, we can see that we
did add that file. It's in there. Now let's go see what it looks like.
If we go back to our page though, said local host and I
refresh this, look at that. It's our website we created
and my daughter just did
the same exact thing on the raspberry Pi. There it is.
See you installed a patty to woo dad [inaudible]. Now, if you just went
through that with me, you know Linux now you don't know
everything about Lennox. No one dies, but you did something, a Linux, you
created a website, you install a package, which is a web server, and you, you
created a website. It's amazing. I'm hoping that that was the bump for you. Just get over that little bump and
now you can just speed forward. So now where to next? How do
you, if you fall in love with us, which I hope you did, I hope that's
what I can give you out of this. How do you learn more Linux? How do you turn this into a
career or how do you augment your, your current skill set,
which you definitely should. I talk with Sean Powers and Sean
Powers is an amazing Linux engineer. He's also an instructor and he teaches,
he's been teaching Linux for ever now. What I love about his story is that
Sean has been in it for a while, but he got in a car wreck, lost
his memory for God, everything. Like he forgot everything he
knew about it, which is insane. So we had to relearn a career and he
decided to relearn with Lennox because it was free. He couldn't
afford anything else. He's had to learn Linux because
it was free. Anyways, I asked him, what are the next steps? How can we
become just amazing Linux engineers? Now this is where I'm challenging
myself and I hope you join me on this challenge. I need to learn
more Linux. I can dabble, but I don't know enough, not enough
to be like where I want to be. So I am committing right now to getting
the first step and that's gaining and earning the comp, t l and x
plus a certification. They
just renewed the thing. It's amazing. And you should
be a Linux admin after that. So I'm going to get that. So if you're
wondering, okay, I want to learn Linux, um, I loved what we just did.
I want to take the next steps, start learning Linux. Plus I've
got books and training below that. I'm going to go through, I'm, Sean
has a great course on CBT nuggets. I'll link that below as well, but
I'm going to get it. I'm getting it. Please hold me accountable
and let me know. If you're interested
in Linux at all below, let me know if you're going to go for it. I think it'd be so fun for us to
go through it together. If you, if you can get through the qualifications, the exam qualifications for either
Altaic or Linux, plus you're going to, you're really going to know Linux. You're going to be confident to help
people solve problems with Linux. You're not just going to put on your
resume. I know some Linux, you're, you're going to be a
confident user of Linux. You're going to install it on multiple
things, um, and you're going to then, then at that point that
build it up enough. Oh yeah. So I'm on the edge of my seat. Then you should look at some Dev ops stuff
because Dev op, the world of Dev ops, um, is, is so awesome and you can, I mean, you can control the world with Dev ops
and every single Dev ops tool is going to rely on Linux in some regard. Everything is going to rely on it because
it's free, it's efficient, it's fast, it's available, it's everywhere. So
all of those fancy new Dev ops tools, even if they're not
designed to work for Linux, they're going to be using Linux like
you learned with Azure. And, uh, I think I'll be making some content
about Linux now. Linux is huge because, well, we already covered
why you should learn Linux, but specifically to my network
engineers out there, uh, and system admin is really, really everyone in it times are changing
to where we're looking at more dev ops, c types of things like where you have
to automate things and Linux is at the forefront of this endeavor, this move, if you want to learn network
automation and network programmability, you gotta know Linux. If you want
to get further with Microsoft and, and started getting involved
in the cloud, uh, Azure, AWS, you need to learn Lennox. I mean,
shoot, I just ran Linux on windows. It doesn't like tell you something
about you need to learn Linux. I don't know what will so learn it
now because it's only gonna help you. It's only going to help
you and teach your kids, get them a raspberry pie is $35
and get them to start using it. Get them familiar with it. That's what
I'm doing. Okay, secret contest time. Follow these instructions here. Post in
the comments below the secret phrase, verse 10 to do so we'll win.
David Bohm was at Lennox course. Go do it. Go. All right guys, that's about
it. Let me know what you think below. Are you going to start learning Linux
or do you already know Linux and let us know how you learn Linux. I encourage
you to go check out Sean Powers. He is one of the best teachers I've
ever seen on Linux and his course is amazing. I've seen a little bit of it
already. It's gotten built in labs. Oh my gosh, and I'm going to go through
it, so check out that link below. I'll also list some books and other
resources for the Lennox plus Ba. You get any of these
must video, any takeaway. They'll go learn some Linux and just
go try it out. It's free. It's free. Also, if you want to
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really soon. Well, that's about it. I'll catch you guys later. [inaudible].
Got 6 minutes into the video. Still haven’t heard a solid reason for “everyone to learn Linux”.
Because not everyone needs to learn Linux. People in IT are a different story. Becky from accounting and your local FB Community Yard Sale group doesn’t need to know this stuff. It’s silly.
Can they use email, the internet, and play java / flash games? Wonderful. They can use literally any OS they please and not know a god damn thing about how it works.