Linux for the Absolute Beginner!

what's up everybody if you have never tried Linux but you want to now is a great time to get into it Linux is becoming a more commonplace operating system for your everyday user and it's easier than ever to try out and install now I'm not going to be the guy who tells you that Linux is the overall perfect solution for your day-to-day computing uses because I don't know what your day-to-day computer situation is if you want an operating system that is very secure Linux is great for that now I'm not going to tell you the viruses don't exist on the Linux platform because it has happened but it is extremely rare that a Linux system gets hit with any virus if you have an older system something that's like 10 years old and you're ready to chuck it because it's running slow and becoming nearly unusable before you do that try installing Linux and see how it runs you'll be very surprised at how much faster the system will operate Linux is open-source and therefore most distributions of Linux are free there's also a ton of community support for Linux in this day and age if you've run into a problem with your installation of Linux or you can't get something that worked quite right chances are somebody else has run into that exact same problem and there's an answer to that solution somewhere on the Internet it's just a Google search away also Linux respects your privacy most of these distributions are not going to be collecting any data on you to sell to third parties another great thing about Linux is that you get a choice in your software there are a ton of distributions a ton of different flavors of Linux I'm sure you can find one that works for you and it's not going to force you into an update that you don't want now Linux may not be your total solution if you want things to work in a way that you're familiar with and you don't want to get over that learning curve Linux may not be the OS for you but if you're willing to put in the time and see how something different works you may find that Linux is a great solution now I'm not saying that Linux is a perfect solution for every job out there I personally am a Video Editor so I use Windows on a day to day basis to edit videos I found that Linux just doesn't work for me for that but in other areas the backbone server online work for example is running loop onto which is a great operating system it's bulletproof I basically turn it on leave it alone and it does its thing very low-maintenance and it's awesome for that if you are wanting to try Linux for the first time there are a couple of different distributions that I recommend all of these distributions are a bunt to base the reason that I recommend Ubuntu as your base operating system to try out Linux for the first time is because there's a ton of community support for Ubuntu also the most distributions that have the most support are Ubuntu based Linux Mint for example is the Cadillac of Linux operating systems it has all of the whistles and bells built right into the OS so you don't have to go hunting for anything you don't have to go looking for any extra software packages everything that you could possibly want for the most part is already built into Linux Mint but for the most part all of the terminal commands that work in Ubuntu should also work in Linux Mint so if you get a little adventurous and you want to try out a tutorial that has terminal commands those same commands that work in Ubuntu should also work in mint the operating system that we're going to try out in this tutorial is or an OS I feel that for most Windows users Zorin is going to have that familiar layout and everything should be in about the same place that a Windows user is used to now I'm sure other people are going to make their recommendations for which distribution you should use and they're gonna put it in a comment section and tell me that I'm wrong don't listen to them listen to me and only me ever regardless of which distribution you choose and which one you feel is right for you the installation process is basically the same and I'm going to meet you over at my computer and we're going to get into how to do that right now [Music] all right guys so I'm going to show you how to make a bootable USB installer now and no matter what project you're working on these steps should be basically the same for making an OS installation USB I also have a guide on how to make a multi boot USB installer if you would be interested in that but for the purpose of this video I'm going to assume that you only need to make one single operating system installation USB so that's what we're gonna do here if you want to make a USB stick with multi boot capability check out my video on the ultimate USB toolkit ok so there are a few different methods that you can use to install the Linux ISO that you want to install the installation process is basically the same for everything it's up to you to choose which distribution you want to use but in this example I'm gonna use Zorin OS and I want to download Zorin lite so I've gone to Zorin OS comm I've clicked on light and here's the download button for that I'm gonna skip to download it's a 64 bit computer that I'm installing this on so I'm gonna download 64 bit it's not as simple as just clicking on this ISO we need something to flash that ISO to a USB Drive and make that USB Drive bootable for that in this example I'm going to use Rufus so head over to Rufus dot ie scroll down to the download section and in this instance it's Rufus 310 I'm gonna click on that to download it once the ISO is finished downloading you should see that in your downloads location wherever that may be and we've also got the Rufus 3.10 Exe here at this point plug a blank USB stick into your computer it doesn't have to be blank but this process is going to overwrite all of the data on that stick so if there's anything on that stick that you want to backup make sure you do that before you do this process open the roof of stout Exe and you should see this now up here you're gonna select your USB Drive that you want to overwrite the one that I want to overwrite is indeed Drive F here you're gonna select disk or ISO image here we're gonna select that ISO that we downloaded in this case Zorin OS we're going to leave everything else as the fault here and hit start and here it's giving us that final warning that everything on this USB stick is going to be erased if you're ready to proceed hit ok this next part takes a few minutes just hang out and wait and this is what it looks like when the process has completed just hit close and you're ready to use this USB stick as an installer now I'm going to use that USB stick that we just created to install the operating system to a computer the first thing we do is plug that USB Drive into the computer that we want to install the fresh operating system on to so what I need to do now is boot from the USB install drive that we just made to do this on my machine when I power on I have to repeat leap tap f9 that gets me to my boot device menu your boot device menu may be tied to a different key commonly it's the escape key delete f12 or it could be something else that's something you'll need to find out for your particular machine so here we go I'm going to power this up I'm gonna start tapping f9 and here's my boot menu so I'm gonna choose USB device I'm gonna select try or installs or an OS now it's gonna go through a process where it loads the OS from the USB stick so now the Zorin OS has booted and we can look at this before we install it but as you can see this will be a very familiar layout as far as finding everything if you're used to the Windows operating system so basically we can go around and explore and see what we think of the operating system before we perform any kind of installation I'm not gonna do that now I'm just gonna get right to the install ok so to install zora and OS we come up here and right in the corner up on the left corner we've got this installation package right here so we're gonna double click that and most of this is just read the step do the step get the banana it's going to prompt you every step along the way so this is my language of choice most of these are going to be by default for me keyboard layout for me again is English us we have the option of downloading updates while installing I'm gonna just go ahead and leave that checked by default I'm gonna install the third-party graphics software and I'm gonna check this just because I don't want to participate in the census so here it's detected that I have a hard drive in the machine I've already formatted the hard drive and thrown it in here if you haven't formatted a hard drive and you have an operating system on this basically if you choose this option right here it's going to erase everything on your hard drive and install the OS to that that's what I want in this instance we have the option of password protecting and encrypting the installation I'm not going to do that we can setup LVM to do snapshots of the installation I'm not going to bother with that either if you would want to do something like a dual boot scenario something like that you can do that in here that's a little more complex and we're not going to get into that I'm just gonna go with this first option here leave the rest of these unchecked and click install now gonna hit continue this is where you choose your time zone you click on the map I am indeed in the New York Times own so I'm gonna hit continue this is more filling the blank stuff I'm gonna require password to login that's up to you how you want to do this this setup that I have right here is more secure alright so when the installation finishes up will see this screen right here we have the option to continue testing and running off of the USB stick or we can hit restart now and that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna restart this system and at this point you want to remove the USB stick and as we can see here we've got an installation of Zoar and os going to enter my password and the big difference we see right away is that installer package that was up in the left corner is now gone so you'll notice right away is that this is a very familiar looking kind of layout here basically you come down here to the lower left corner and you'll see that it's got shortcuts to all of your various places that you would need to get on your computer if you need to install new software this is your software Center think of it as like the Microsoft Store and this is a very easy way to go through and install new software that you may want to use in addition to this you can also type things that you're looking for down here to access the Linux terminal it's ctrl alt T and here you can type in your commands I believe this is the same as Ubuntu so yeah so basically it's the same commands that you would use in Ubuntu basically to get things done so anything that would work on Ubuntu I would imagine would work here in Sauron as well through the terminal but that's a tutorial for another day that's deeper stuff we're not going to get into that now we're going to basically just look at this as a operating system from day to day use for your software basically you can go through and you can see what you want in here you can go through the different tabs and see what's available for example you can find probably office in here OpenOffice or Libre yeah here's the labor office files down here that you can get you can browse through different games so this is Firefox booting for the first time that took a little bit longer to boot than what I would be happy with let's try that again to be fair this is a 12 year old machine a lot of people who are just making the change to Linux from Windows are probably Google Chrome users I'm not gonna condemn or condone chrome I'm just gonna show how to install it on Linux it's pretty simple and straightforward but it is not in the software store so you can go to crumbs web page click on download Chrome we're gonna get the 64 bit deb package accept and install gonna open it after it finishes downloading and we're going to run what ok it's taken a second we're gonna install this we have to authenticate with the password that we set up ok so now it looks like it should be installed I'm gonna close this out and if we go to our internet tab over here we see that we have Google Chrome I'm gonna see if it opens any faster than Firefox did okay sure yeah I'm liking the performance over Firefox already and we should be able to drag an item yeah there we go so now we've got Chrome on our essentially on our taskbar down here they're really taking a page out of windows playbook on how to layout an operating system here this is the software store down here just like a fresh installation of Windows and this would be your file explorer and anything else that you may need but this video is running pretty long already so I'm gonna get out of your hair this is something that I'll let you install and you can play with on your own and check out and see what you can do with it it is pretty snappy as far as a it's it's a nice balance between a snappy operating system and a good-looking operating system so I think that if you give this a shot you won't be disappointed so I hope you found something useful in this video if you did consider hitting that subscribe button and leave a like it really helps my channel grow that's it for now and I'll see you next time

Channel: Low Dough Tech

Views: 208,104

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Id: EN7mbRccT-8

Length: 15min 6sec (906 seconds)

Published: Sun May 24 2020