Ubuntu Complete Beginners Guide (Full Course in one video!)

[Music] so [Music] hello and welcome back to learn linux tv in today's video i am going to give all of you ubuntu beginners out there an entire video dedicated to getting you started with running ubuntu on your laptop or desktop i'm going to talk to you about some considerations things to think about before you install it and then i'll walk you through the installation process both with a full install walkthrough as well as a walkthrough on dual booting with windows 10 and then i'm going to show you how to use ubuntu how to install software it's going to be great but before we get into that i want to take a moment to mention my sponsor lenode lynode has been doing cloud computing since 2003 which is actually before amazon web services was even a thing on the node's platform you can get your server up and running in minutes and they include all of the popular distributions such as centos debian ubuntu fedora and get this also arch linux and let's be honest what could be better than a 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firefox installed right here and we want to go to ubuntu.com and here on the website we can click on the download button and then here where it shows ubuntu desktop we can choose lts or the non-lts release now if you need a long-term support release you would go with this one but if you want something more bleeding edge then you would go with the newer version the version number basically works out as year and then month so here we can see 2020 april and then this one is 2020 and then 10 but we simply refer to it as 2004 or 2010 and depending on when you are watching this video there could be other versions shown here but the basic thing to understand is that the lts version stands for long-term support it's supported for up to five years with security updates and then the non-lts release is supported for just nine months which means that you will need to upgrade within nine months to stay current otherwise you will stop getting security updates so again i'm going to leave that up to you for most people i like to go with the lts release but if you have just purchased a brand new computer you probably want to go with 2010 because the newer version is going to have newer drivers but again i'll leave that up to you in my case i will actually download the latest version and the download automatically started now the file format is an iso file which historically has been used to create dvds and cds basically the iso format is a clone of a cd or a dvd in file form and even though we really don't burn dvds or cds so much anymore the file format has remained the same we'll actually use a flash drive for the installation so don't worry that this is a format that is specifically catering to cds and dvds we can still use it the format is now pretty much universal but the name has remained the same i'll click ok to actually start the download you can see that it is downloading here so it's going to take a few minutes and then what we also should download is a utility that we can use to actually turn that iso file into media that we can actually boot from so we'll need to download something called usb imager so i'm just typing it here in the search that should be all i need to do usb imager all one word no space and we're looking for a get lab page like we see here so let's go to that and i will have links in the description down below so you could basically just click on those links and go directly to the things you need you don't actually have to search and the reason why i like this tool is because regardless of which operating system you are currently running you'll be able to use the same tool to create bootable media as you can see we have a version for windows mac os and even versions of linux so again regardless of what you are currently running you'll be able to use usb imager so i only have to describe the process once and it works for any operating system so in my case i'll download the windows version you just download whatever one matches your current operating system so i will save the file and that file will download super quick because it's super small as you can see it's only 142 kilobytes now the ubuntu file here is going to take a little bit more time to download because it's much larger at around 2.7 gigabytes as of the time i'm recording this video so i'll give it a minute to download and then i'll be right back so at this point both of these files have finished downloading so i shouldn't need the browser anymore and if i go to the file manager here and then into the downloads directory you can see that i have both of the files downloaded so i will extract usb imager let's go ahead and open that up and we get this little warning alert it's fine i'll just click more info run anyway and let's go ahead and get that running and it is so this is usb imager the utility that we will use to create bootable media and this will erase everything on the flash drive so if there is anything important on your flash drive make sure that you back that up because we'll need to dedicate the flash drive for this process so the first thing that we will do just click right here we will select the image that we've downloaded here's the ubuntu iso image let's open that up now that's selected i should be able to close this we don't need that anymore and then the next thing we'll do is select the flash drive that we want to use for this purpose so i will insert my flash drive right here and you can see that it immediately selected the flash drive here on this list if you have more than one flash drive on your computer then this will actually show more than one just make sure that you are selecting the correct flash drive i only have the one which is this one right here we know it's not the card reader so this is the only option so what i will do is click the right button right here to begin the process and it starts immediately you can see down here a progress bar is starting to fill up it's telling me it's going to take about a minute or so for this to finish so i will let this finish and then i'll be right back alright so the process has completed i have successfully written the iso image to the flash drive and i can now use it to boot my computer into ubuntu and start the process and the method that you will utilize to do that depends on your computer with dell for example it's usually f12 to access the boot menu it varies from one computer to another but essentially what you do is you reboot your computer make sure the flash drive is inserted and then you press whatever key combination you need to press at the beginning of the boot process to activate the boot menu and then you select the flash drive as the boot option and then if all goes well it should actually boot right into ubuntu so in the next section what i'm going to do is give you guys some tips on how you can test compatibility with ubuntu on your computer before you install it so once you have booted from the installation media that we've created you will see this screen right here which is giving us the option to try ubuntu or go straight into the installation now i highly recommend that you try it first and what that will do is actually allow you to test compatibility before you actually go and install ubuntu on your computer so i'll click try ubuntu right here and then after you click that button you will actually be using the ubuntu desktop already we haven't even installed it yet it's actually running off the flash drive in what's called live mode which allows you to demo ubuntu before you install it to actually install ubuntu you will click on this icon right here to do that but we're not going to do that yet before we actually install ubuntu we need to make sure that it works on our computer first now ubuntu has great hardware compatibility it's among the best but it's not a hundred percent no operating system has 100 compatibility ubuntu is supported on the majority of hardware out there but the onus is on you to verify compatibility before you install it what i have seen a lot of people do is go straight to the installation by double clicking here to open up the installer and then they'll just navigate straight through blow away their current operating system and then when it's done they will create a message in a linux help forum or maybe a linux facebook group and then ask for help you know ubuntu doesn't work i can access the internet or something like that and you know i'm very happy to help people that are in that situation but i do feel that that's a situation that should never happen why because again we need to test compatibility before we blow away our current operating system and that's why i had you click the try ubuntu button instead of the install button first and foremost we need to make sure that we have a network connection in the upper right hand corner here we have a menu we can drop down and then we can find out if we have an internet connection now this laptop has wi-fi and i haven't even added my wi-fi password yet so if i open up a web browser and we have firefox pre-installed right here if i go to my website obviously it's not going to work so let's go ahead and get connected to wi-fi then if you have a wi-fi card that is supported then you should have an option here to connect to wi-fi so if i click on that and then click select network it's going to show me a list of wi-fi networks that are in my area now if you don't even have a wi-fi option at all in that menu or if you do and it shows no networks here despite the fact that you are sure there's a wi-fi network near you that probably means that your wi-fi card is not supported and you should not install ubuntu until you find out how to fix that sometimes it comes down to replacing the wi-fi card with a known working wi-fi card other times there might be specific instructions to get that going most of the time you will have no problems on most hardware ubuntu will find the wi-fi card and be able to use it no problem but there are a few wi-fi cards out there that are not supported so if you do not have an option to connect to wi-fi and that is something you need to be able to do do not continue make sure you go to a linux help forum a facebook group or even the community forums for this very channel tell us what the model is of the computer that you're trying to install ubuntu on and maybe we can help you try to find out why you don't have that option but i do so i will click on my wi-fi network here and connect to it i'll add the password click connect and now we are connected right here it actually shows that the wi-fi icon has some signal if i refresh this page here you can see that we are actually able to view this web page now if you don't even have a wi-fi card and you're just going to plug in an ethernet cable then this step probably worked just fine already you probably have an icon up here that will be in the same place as this wi-fi icon is but it'll have the icon of an ethernet jack instead but if you can get to a web page as you can see i'm able to do here then already you know that internet is working just fine and it passes that test another thing that you should do is just click on a video you can go to youtube for example watch a video that gives you an opportunity to test the audio to make sure that that works and you know it even gives you the opportunity to make sure that the video playback is acceptable as well if you intend to use multiple monitors i highly recommend that you plug one in to make sure that that's working just fine and if you have an opportunity to test all of the hardware that you intend to use on your computer with ubuntu and everything works fine then you should be all set and ready to go to go ahead and get the installation going that's exactly what i'm going to do in the next section i'm going to walk you through an entire installation i will show you how to install ubuntu as the only operating system on your computer and then i will also show you the process of setting up a dual boot with windows as well in a separate section so if you want to do a full install check out the next section in this very video if you want to do a dual boot then skip that section and then move on to the one after it but at this point i'm going to assume that you have backed up everything that is important on your computer if you are doing a full install and wiping the current operating system that's especially important but even if you plan on doing a dual boot with windows and you have content on your windows partition that you want to keep i still recommend that you back that up just in case something goes wrong so go ahead and make sure that everything is backed up on your computer and then we can go ahead and get ubuntu installed [Music] in the previous section of the video i've gone over a few of the things that you should test before you install ubuntu so at this point i'm going to assume that you have backed up everything that's important on your computer and you have already tested the hardware to make sure that it's compatible assuming all of that checks out we can go ahead and get the installation started and in this section i am going to walk you through the full installation of ubuntu which means erasing your entire hard drive and installing ubuntu as the only operating system on your computer if you would like to set up a dual boot with windows then move on to the next section directly after this one in this same video because that's the next thing that i'm going to walk you through how to do so anyway i will double click here on install ubuntu and then here we have the installer so the first screen is basically allowing you to set the language for the installation process it defaults to english at least for me if your language is something else you could basically just go through the list until you find yours and select it accordingly but i'm going to leave it as english i'll click continue and then next we have an opportunity to set the keyboard layout so just make sure that you actually choose the right thing you can attempt to do a detection if you want it to be automatically selected i like to manually select it to make sure that i have what i think i have and then you can type in this box right here to test the keyboard as well as any special keys you may have to ensure that everything is working properly so we'll continue and then we have some options we could do a normal or minimal installation i recommend you do a normal installation that gives you a full suite of software advanced users might like the minimal option because that does not include all of the pre-included software here just a few things like a web browser and some basic utilities so i recommend that you do the normal installation so that's what i'm going to do downloading updates while installing ubuntu that's a good idea there still might be some additional updates after the fact but having this box checked right here will make sure that at least some of the updates are installed as you install the distribution i'm going to uncheck it though in my case because having this checked is just going to make the recording footage longer so i'll leave it up to you to check that box and i'm not going to check this box right here either because that's going to add additional time to the recording but i do recommend that you check this box i recommend that you check both and what this box will do is make sure that if there's any extra software or drivers that's required for any hardware you may have there's a better chance that you will have that software set up automatically by choosing this option so i will leave that up to you but i do recommend that you choose both of these i will not again it's just going to make the recording a bit longer so we'll continue now in my case it's detecting that i already have an operating system on the hard drive and in your case it's probably going to show that you have an operating system already as well although instead of pop os yours will probably say windows or something like that some of you might actually be installing a brand new hard drive although fewer of you will be using a brand new hard drive so what we want to do is choose the option to erase the disk and install ubuntu as you can see right here there are some advanced features that we can utilize here for example we can actually use zfs and lvm as well and using lvm gives you the ability to encrypt your entire hard drive which means you will have a password that you'll need to enter anytime you boot now that's a bit beyond the scope you can enable the encryption if you want to i'm just going to cancel this and just leave it selected erase disk i'll click install now and then i'll click continue and it's actually installing in the background but we have a few more screens to answer here so on this map screen you are basically going to click wherever on this map you happen to be that'll set your locale as well as your time zone and i'm closer to detroit so i just basically clicked right here and set it to detroit as you can see just go ahead and set it to wherever your location happens to be and click continue then we can put in our user information right here so i'll just put in my name for the computer name i'll just call it thinkpad i think that's good enough i'll leave the username as my first name and lowercase that's the username that you'll use to log in with although in ubuntu you don't actually have to type the username to log in and then i'll just go ahead and type in the password here and we have an option to log in automatically i don't recommend that you choose that unless maybe this is for an internet kiosk or some kind of computer that you want everyone to access very very easily it's common to need a password to log in anyway if you are trying to join an active directory domain and utilize that for authentication you can check this box that's beyond the scope of this video but enterprise users out there would likely want to check that box so we'll continue and it's wrapping up the rest of the installation we have this little slideshow here that we can click through to see some details and some tidbits of knowledge about ubuntu i'll leave it up to you to click through that if you'd like but what i'll do is just fast forward through this installation process and then i'll be right back all right so the installation is complete so let's go ahead and click on the restart button here and then i'll remove the flash drive and then press enter and if all goes well it should boot into the brand new installation and although you can't actually see this my screen recorder isn't actually able to start recording until after i log in but i see a login screen so i'm just clicking my name and then i'll type my password and then now that i've logged in this is the first screen that i see right here it's giving me an option to connect to online accounts if i have an account and any of these services i can go ahead and click on it put in my user information and then i can benefit from things like calendar syncing contact syncing and things like that i'll skip it for now [Music] and then here it's asking us to help improve ubuntu by sending them information about our computer and the installation and you can click right here to see what the actual information is that it wants to send over and as you can see nothing here is personally identifiable so this is not a privacy concern basically this distribution is free so if all canonical the makers of ubuntu are asking for is to get some information about the computer to help improve ubuntu and the compatibility it has with hardware i think that's a very fair trade-off now i'm actually not going to send that info along because i've already done so i've installed ubuntu on this laptop probably dozens of times by now so they definitely have that information but i think that's a good thing to send along as a thank you for making this distribution available to us for free so click next and then we have the option to enable location services and you can leave this off by default if you'd like if you do plan on using something like a map application or something like that you might consider turning that on but i'll leave that up to you now this screen is telling us that we are all set and ready to go we see some icons here that represent some of the more popular applications that we can choose to install on ubuntu if we would like to do so this is not an extensive list here just some of the highlights if you'd like to install one of these apps you can simply click on the icon for that app and as you can see that opened up spotify i can click on install i can put in my password the same password i used to log in with and it's installing the app as you can see and now as you can see spotify is installed now i will go over how to install applications in more detail in a section that comes later on in this very video and you could basically open the software app from this button right here but again we'll be going over that soon so don't worry about that for now but in terms of this section we did successfully install ubuntu so we're all set and ready to go all right so in this section of the video what i'm going to do is walk you through dual booting ubuntu with windows 10. now if you want to do a full install the previous section of this video will walk you through that if you want ubuntu to be the only operating system but in this section we are going to actually set up a dual boot so i'm going to assume at this point that you already have windows installed on your computer in my case if i go to the disk management and i can go there by right clicking on the start button here then i go to disk management just to give you an idea of how the disk is set up here you can basically see that the entire hard drive is dedicated to windows and we can see that right here i have a one terabyte ssd on this computer now if your windows installation is not using the entire hard drive then that's okay that makes it even easier but anyway most of you guys that want to do a dual boot will have a windows installation that takes up the entire hard drive similar to how i am setting up this tutorial right here in a previous section of the video i showed you how to create bootable media so i'm going to assume that you have already done that and with the flash drive inserted into your computer you can go ahead and restart it then at the beginning you just press whatever key combination you need to press in order to access the boot menu and then we can select the flash drive as the boot medium that we will use to boot our computer now here we have an option to try ubuntu or install ubuntu and what i'm going to do is actually click the try ubuntu button because we don't want to install ubuntu just yet we want to make sure that ubuntu is compatible with our hardware before we install it so i'll click the try ubuntu button and then as you can see here we already have the ubuntu desktop on our screen now ubuntu will run a bit slower in live mode than it will run when you install it on the actual hardware but it's very important that you try it before you install it so that way you don't install it just to find out that it's not compatible so now that we know that this computer is compatible as far as we can tell with ubuntu we can go ahead and install it so right here on the desktop we have an install icon if i double click on that up comes the installer so the very first screen is just asking us to select the language that we will use for the installation process and you can scroll through the language list here if your actual language is not english english is the default here in my case so i will click continue and then if you are using a keyboard type that is not the one that's selected you can go through and choose the keyboard type that you have and then the variation of the keyboard that you have and then you can click into this box right here to basically just test to make sure that everything is working fine then we can continue and now we have an option for normal installation or minimal installation now i recommend that everyone go with normal installation that gives you a full suite of software here you get an office suite a web browser utilities games media players things like that and alternatively you can choose to install the minimal version of ubuntu which only includes the web browser and basic utilities none of the other things such as games will be installed in that case unless you really do want to have a trimmed down install and then select the applications that you want accordingly i recommend that you actually choose the normal installation option in this box right here to have it download updates while installing i recommend you keep that checked it's not actually going to install all updates but it will install a great deal of them so it's just less to do after the install so there's no reason not to check this box although on my end i'm going to uncheck it because having that checked is just going to add unnecessary time to the recording but i do recommend that you check that on your side and i also recommend that you check this box here where it says install third-party software for graphics and wi-fi hardware and additional media formats basically what that is is just giving you the ability to have some pre-installed drivers to support some common pieces of hardware there's no reason not to select this because it's just going to make your experience that much smoother so i actually recommend that you check both of these boxes even though i'm not because again you know i'm recording a video and the more i choose here the longer this recording is going to take so i'll click continue now here is where the installation instructions actually diverge in the previous section of this video i walked you through a full installation where you will actually wipe out the entire hard drive in this case we want to actually create a dual boot between windows and ubuntu so we don't want to wipe the entire drive so with the previous section i had you choose this option don't choose this option right here this will erase windows and everything on your drive we are going to leave the selection here where the verbit shows that we can install ubuntu alongside windows that's what we want to do so we're going to leave that option there and click continue now before we go any further i'm hoping that you have already backed up your computer even though this process has never failed me it's worked just fine we're dealing with computers which means we are dealing with chaos theory basically and you know something can go wrong and if we make a mistake or something like that we don't want to have data that we just can't get back so what i recommend just make sure you have everything backed up now on this screen here we are basically choosing how much space to allocate to windows and how much space to allocate to ubuntu and what you can do is just move the mouse here to the center the cursor kind of turns into a double arrow icon if you hold the left mouse button you could drag it to the left and you could drag it to the right dragging it to the left gives more space to ubuntu dragging it to the right gives more space to windows so depending on how much you use one over the other will determine how much space you should give one or the other i'm going to leave it there somewhere in the middle it's good enough for me you definitely want to make sure you don't give too little space to one or the other you basically want to have some room to you know grow and install applications and store files and things like that so again i'll put it here in the middle and then i'll click install now and then i will click continue to finalize the changes then continue again and now ubuntu is actually installing in the background but we still have a few more screens to go before we are done with the configuration so here basically what we'll want to do is click on the map wherever we are located geographically so i'm closer to detroit so i'm going to put the little dot right here by clicking on it and what that does is it sets your locale and your time zone so just make sure that you put this dot as close as you can get it to where you actually are and then we'll continue and then here we fill out information for our user account so i'll go ahead and put in my information here and then for the computer name i will just call it thinkpad i think that's a simpler name to use that's the name that the computer will be known as on the network if you do any file sharing or something like that here we are choosing a password for the user account i'll just go ahead and type in the password that i want it to be and it's not the greatest password in the world but you know this is just an example and i'm going to leave the selection here to require the password to log in if i was to choose the login automatically option it's going to do exactly what it shows it's going to log us in automatically and unless you're setting up an internet kiosk you probably don't want to do that and then if you are using ubuntu in the enterprise and you have active directory you can choose this box right here to enable that option that's beyond the scope of this video though so let's continue because we have everything filled out and the installation is going to go ahead and proceed from here and you can click the little arrow here to scroll through this slideshow which gives you some additional information about ubuntu so feel free to click through this and read about the various features and things like that i'll leave that up to you but anyway i'm going to let this finish i'm just going to fast forward through the rest of this installation and then i'll be back as soon as it's finished all right so the installation is complete now what i'm going to do is restart the computer and what you won't see is the boot menu because my screen recorder can't actually record that what you should see on your end if everything has gone well is you should see an actual selection for which operating system you would like to boot when you start the computer but my screen recorder is not actually going to capture that part but what i want to do first is just boot into windows and make sure that that still works so what i'll do is click restart now and if i press nothing it should boot directly into windows now i will remove the flash drive and press enter all right so at the beginning of the process when my computer first started i chose the windows option in the selection menu and well here's windows so i'll go ahead and log in and there you go i'm able to boot into windows so at least i know that the windows installation still works fine that's a good sign now if i bring up the disk info here just to show you previously this showed that i had a one terabyte disk now it shows that it's 469 gigabytes so we can clearly see that it was resized that's also a good sign so windows is working let's reboot again and this time i'm going to let it boot into ubuntu and now i have successfully booted into ubuntu so the dual boot was a complete success just like with any other ubuntu installation it's going to ask us a few questions the first screen is giving us the ability to sign in to any online accounts that we may have for example if you have a google account you can actually sign into that right here i'm not going to do that though i'm going to skip that i don't actually have any accounts that i would like to use on this installation but if you do have at least a google account you'll benefit from calendar syncing and things like that it's probably a good idea to sign in if that's something you want to utilize but i'll skip that for now and this screen right here is basically asking us if we would like to provide some information to canonical the developers of ubuntu that they can use to actually improve ubuntu and the way i see it more than likely you probably downloaded ubuntu for free and since they made this available to us for free i don't think it's too much to ask to send some information along and if you're at all curious you can click this button here to show the report this will show you all of the information that they intend to send to canonical if you agree to have that done as you can see here nothing is personally identifiable so if you don't mind i highly recommend that you send that over to canonical because they can definitely utilize the information and they can use that to help improve ubuntu i'm not going to do that on my end because i've installed linux on this machine more times than i can count and i've already sent this information to them so i'll just say no for now i'll click next and location services is disabled by default if you'd like you can go ahead and enable that and i would do that if you actually plan on using a map application or something like that but if you don't plan on using that then you can actually leave this as disabled so i'll click next and then here we have a list of popular applications that we can install if we want any of these on our system and we also have gnome software the button for that is right here and also here on the left hand side and we can use that to get a full category of applications that we can install these are just some of the more popular ones for example if i click on spotify and then with this window here i can simply click install to install spotify and then i'll type in the password that i used to log in that should be all there is to it as you can see it's installing and as you can see it was that simple now in a future section in this video i'm going to walk through the process of managing software so don't worry about that so much right now we'll get back to that but for now not only have we installed ubuntu but we have set up a dual boot which is pretty awesome so that's great now we can boot into windows when we need to or ubuntu and we get a choice at the beginning of the boot process where we can choose one operating system or the other [Music] so now that we have our ubuntu installation all set up there's actually a few things that we should do before we start using it now the first thing that we should do is make sure that we install any drivers that might be required for hardware that we have on our system now this is something that doesn't really apply to most of you but i do recommend that you at least check this to make sure that you are utilizing whatever software you might need and it's very easy to check so if you go down here to the applications menu the very first thing here is additional drivers so let's click on that and it's going to take a moment to basically search and it has already found something check this out so here we have an nvidia geforce gtx 1050 ti mobile graphics processor here in this laptop which is actually a very decent gpu that allows us to play games but we're not going to be able to play games on this gpu without having the appropriate driver even if you are not playing games i still recommend that you install the nvidia driver if you do have such a card as you can see here now yours might not show anything here you may not even have any hardware on your computer that would require a proprietary driver but basically i'm having you check here just in case you might and since i do i'm going to choose the most recent version of the nvidia driver that's what i recommend you do as well if you do have such a card and click apply changes and then i'll type in my password now for comparison if you have an amd video card for example then it should already work out of the box you shouldn't actually need to install anything nvidia is the one that needs proprietary drivers now you might actually see other things here maybe something related to your wi-fi card or some other piece of hardware but i'll leave it up to you to check this section and find out if there's anything available here the common rule of thumb is if nothing shows here as being available then you're good if something does show up here you might want to go ahead and install it to make full use of your hardware so this will actually take a moment as you can see here it's filling up it's almost there even though it says that we do have a proprietary driver in use we really don't we should reboot our computer to make sure that we are using the updated software but before we do that we actually should install all of the updates that have been made available since the release of the version of ubuntu that we're on to make sure that everything is up to date and since we have to reboot anyway to do that then i'm not going to reboot for the nvidia driver installation let's check the updates so back here in the application menu scroll down and we have software updater right here so we'll click on that and it has indeed found some updates it's important to keep up to date on the updates because there's a reason why these updates are made available there could be new features but more importantly there could also be security updates as well so we should definitely get them installed if you're curious what exactly is being updated you can expand this then we can see that there's all kinds of different things here and inside the ubuntu base we see that there's actually a bunch more so they do their best to consolidate the list a little bit here but there's a lot more going on here we basically just need to install all the updates so i'll do that now and we can see that it's progressing so i'll let this finish and then i'll be right back so as you can see right here it's recommending that we restart our computer to take advantage of all of the updates which i highly recommend that you do and i'm going to do the same thing in the next section of the video though i am going to show you around the desktop environment here the user interface how to interact with ubuntu where things are located how to change settings and things like that so off camera i'm going to go ahead and click this restart button here and then i recommend you do the same and then i'll see you in the next [Music] section so in this section of the video what i'm going to do is show you guys around the ubuntu desktop i'm going to show you where things are located how to launch applications switch between applications as well as how to utilize workspaces which will allow you to work more efficiently with your computer so let's get started now first and foremost there's a lot going on with the default desktop here we have some icons on the desktop we have some icons here on the left hand side on this panel and we even have some icons in the upper right hand corner so in no particular order let's go through everything that we see on the screen right now in the upper right hand corner if we click here and we can click anywhere here doesn't matter same thing you basically get some options that are related to our system in general now these indicators here we have one for wi-fi this will show your wi-fi signal strength i have actually some really good wi-fi strength right now in fact the access point is literally right above my head we have a volume icon here and a battery icon and then here we can actually adjust the sliders for anything here you can't see it but this is going to increase or decrease the brightness we have a selection here for changing the wi-fi network or just basically connecting to a wi-fi network get a list right here and then in regards to bluetooth we could turn it off to save battery or if we want to actually connect to a bluetooth device you can click bluetooth settings right here and if we have a bluetooth device that's in pairing mode we should see it here and then we can connect to it you simply just click on it and then follow the prompts so for example if you wanted to set up a headset and the headset supported bluetooth then this is where you would do that now here for the battery icon we get a selection that only includes one option power settings we click on that we not only see the battery life of any devices that we have attached i have about half remaining on my wireless mouse not really sure what that is but we're going to ignore that battery is fully charged and if we scroll down we can adjust the keyboard brightness if we have a backlight i do but you can't see it but you know honest it is actually lighting up right now we can enable or disable the feature that dims the screen when it's inactive i don't really like that so i will leave that deactivated here blank screen while i'm recording i don't really want that to happen and then we can enable automatic suspend or disable it it's enabled by default for battery power so if i unplug the power and then i just let this thing idle for 20 minutes it's going to suspend and we get some other controls here but you know standard stuff and then we have access right here to the settings app which allows us to customize the ubuntu desktop and you just saw that open up to the battery section which was the last one i was on which is how that works we can lock the screen so if we need to leave our chair and go get some coffee and we don't want anyone to see what we're up to we can lock the screen and then if i expand this here we can suspend restart power off or log out so these are basically all of your system controls in the upper right in the center on the top panel it already shows us the current date we get a little calendar here and if we have any calendar events they will show down here and those will show if you have decided to synchronize to any of the calendar services that came up when we initially installed ubuntu it basically asked if we wanted to add any online accounts and if you have done that and that online account has a calendar for example you should see calendar events here if you have any now here we have system related notifications i don't have any right now but every now and then if an app shows a notification it'll show up right here it'll actually briefly display up here at the top and about this area right here it'll go away after a few seconds but if you didn't really get a chance to read it you can click here and you can see the notification on this list if you would prefer not to be disturbed and not see any notifications at all you can enable do not disturb mode so for example if you are recording a youtube video and you don't want any notifications to show up on the screen that might interrupt the recording or make you have to edit something out then you would probably enable do not disturb mode and as you can tell i actually have to utilize that quite a bit but even if you do have do not disturb mode enabled when you click on this you will still see any notifications here that you would have seen if notifications were not disabled which gives you the opportunity to catch up with notifications after the fact what this does here is it just makes sure that you don't have any notifications that pop up in front of what you're doing we have some desktop icons so here we have a link to the home folder this is where we actually save files and how it got there was i just double clicked right here similarly we have a trash folder as well so if you've used any other operating system that has a file manager as well as a trash folder which is probably all of them then you know pretty much what these do your deleted files will actually be stored here and then again your personal data like your mp3 files for example family photos whatever you have can all be saved in here which gives you quick access to those files on the left hand side we have this panel right here which has a bunch of icons here these icons are favorite applications you can mark any application you have installed as a favorite i didn't actually mark any of these as a favorite basically these were included as favorites when we installed ubuntu as examples but what we can do is right-click any of these and then click here to remove them from the favorites and if i do that it goes away and if i click on any of these apps they will open so here's firefox notice how a dot appears to the left of firefox that shows that that application is actually running if we don't see a dot next to it the application is not running so that's pretty simple so i can open as many applications as i would like as you can see and again we can easily tell which ones are actually running i can minimize any of these applications just like any other operating system and it just basically lowers them back into the tray if i click on any of these icons for a running application it brings it back now if i click on this little grid icon down here where it says show applications that will bring me to a list of all of the applications that are installed on this machine and there's a lot of applications here that are installed by default for example i already have this open but it's a full office suite libre office which is included by default here and i can open this right here which is their equivalent to basically excel it's a spreadsheet application libreoffice is a great office suite now you will actually see some people out there that will make fun of libreoffice and say things like you know it's not as good as microsoft office and it's not compatible all of which is completely false i have written five books each professionally published and i have used libreoffice to accomplish that so if i was able to get five books professionally published through libreoffice that just goes to show you how awesome libreoffice actually is and other people on the publishing team were using microsoft office so we were able to trade files back and forth no problem so libreoffice is awesome now older versions of libreoffice weren't as good as the newer versions so some of those opinions actually stem from reality because it was very rough when this came out long story made short the developers have made a lot of improvements and well it's actually totally fine now also when it comes to pre-installed applications quite a few things here we have some games our solitaire for example we have remina or maybe it's pronounced romina so sorry about that but anyway this app is actually able to allow you to connect to remote desktops so if you actually use your computer professionally and you interact with windows servers or something like that you can actually connect to them from this app which is pretty cool and here we have rhythm box if you have an mp3 collection for example all you really have to do in the file manager is basically add all of your music into this folder and this app is already configured to look inside this folder to find files and then it should show them here i don't actually have any mp3 files and even if i did if i was to play any of them i would probably get a copyright strike so i can't really show you that but if you do have music files you might want to check out rhythm box and we also have a shortcut to it right here as well and speaking of that if there is an application that you would like to be a favorite that isn't currently a favorite then all you really have to do is just right click on it and then make it a favorite so if i basically want to add solitaire as a favorite i'll right click on that i'll click add to favorites and then it shows up here on the list and if i scroll down here there's more applications and i will let you explore these applications to see what's included by default there's actually some really cool stuff here now one more i'd like you to see is here in utilities it's called system monitor it allows you to basically keep an eye on system resources for example in the center tab here we can see the cpu usage we can see memory usage network history under file systems we can see how much hard drive space is actually being utilized as you can see in my case not much then here we get a list of all the processes that are running on our linux system here so if we need to kill something that's misbehaving we can right click on it and kill the process hopefully you will not have to do that though now also what we can do here on the applications menu is we can actually rearrange these icons any way we see fit so for some reason if i want the libreoffice calc application to be maybe closer up here to the top i could just basically drop it wherever i want it to be to rearrange these icons and what i could do is also drop it on top of another icon and that will actually group them together so for example i could put all the libreoffice icons all in the same little box here and it even named it office which is pretty cool i didn't even have to name it another example is i can drag rhythm box on top of spotify spotify is something that i've installed as a test it named it sound and video and if you click on it you can see the icons that are inside that group and you can also go ahead and rename them as well maybe something like that i'll leave it up to you but basically you have full control over the arrangement of the applications on this list now when it comes to switching between applications i mean at first it's pretty easy just like any other operating system basically could just have like several applications open if it opens full screen you can pull it away from the top i don't know why this happens i think this is a bug when you do that with libreoffice it makes it this impossible to use really small window so you got to basically position the mouse around the corner there to make it an appropriate size libreoffice is the only application i've seen do this i think it's just the ubuntu implementation has a bug i don't know anyway the point is switching between applications is very easy to do again just like any other operating system but where this actually shines is that we have virtual workspaces so if i click up here where it shows activities then what it's going to do is show me all the applications that are open so for example if i had this full screen and i wasn't sure which applications i had open now i could just hold alt and press tab and then the alt tab menu comes up and i can find out what apps are open and switch accordingly but i could also just hit the super key to show all of the applications that are open i can hit it again to go back to the normal mode and i can access that same screen by just clicking on activities but what we also have at our disposal is workspaces over here on the right if i just move my mouse over here to the right i have an empty desktop that i can use and i can switch between this desktop the one i've been using or i could switch here to this empty desktop and then i could basically open yet another app and basically i can open apps that are separate from the others so for example maybe i'm at work and i am playing some solitaire and you know i just love this game and maybe i should be working but i just need to finish this game and then my boss comes over and is like hey what are you doing actually hopefully i'm quick enough to where i could just do this and switch back to the busy workspace where i'm actually doing work and then when he or she walks away i can just switch back to my game and continue it of course bad example but you get the idea now what i could do is press the super key and i could switch between them with the mouse but what i actually did was i just held down the super key and then i pressed page up to go up a workspace and while holding down the super key i pressed page down to go down a workspace and what you'll also notice back here on activities i have an empty workspace right here now previously i had one empty workspace right here but now i have two workspaces that have apps what it did was it went ahead and created a new empty desktop right here so if i go here and then i open up let's just say ubuntu software and then go back to the overview i have another empty workspace so basically what will happen is that it will always make sure that you have an empty workspace and this feature is called dynamic workspaces so the number of workspaces that you have available is adjusted automatically so it just makes sure that you always have an empty workspace that you can switch to to start a new task the reason why i like this is because i can have a workspace for each project that i'm working on which allows me to intelligently segregate my workloads and i can have all the apps that are designated for a particular purpose on their own separate workspace which i think is awesome so as you can see the ubuntu desktop actually gives us quite a bit of flexibility for how we run our applications how we separate them how we switch between them and so on now this graphical user interface here this desktop environment is called gnome there's actually several desktop environments available for linux distributions and this is just one of many gnome is one of the more popular desktop environments and that's actually what you are interacting with when you use the standard version of ubuntu although they customize it quite a bit because they add this panel here which gnome doesn't actually have by default so they just basically add a few things here to make the desktop easier to use and the reason why i mentioned that is just so if you try a different linux distribution that also offers gnome as the main desktop environment and it actually operates a bit differently well now you know ubuntu actually has some customizations pre-installed that just makes it easier and the panel is one example of that but go ahead and explore the ubuntu desktop just play around with it get more familiar with it especially play around with the dynamic workspaces because that is my favorite feature for sure in the next section what i'm going to do is show you how to install additional software [Music] so in this section of the video i am going to walk you through how to install software as discussed in the previous section there's actually quite a bit of software that's installed here by default everything from a web browser to an app that allows you to view what's on your webcam a remote desktop app even solitaire of all things there's quite a few awesome apps already included but how do you add more applications to your ubuntu desktop well let's go ahead and explore that and to add new software we will click right here where it shows a shopping bag icon here it's labeled ubuntu software when i click on that it's going to bring me to this application right here which is the app that we will use to add additional software think of this like the app store on a mobile platform or something like that you have some applications up here that you could consider installing but more importantly we have categories down here of different type of applications that you can choose to install for example if you click on games sometimes it takes a moment for this to refresh and when it does you should see a list of applications that you can actually install so if we start scrolling through the list here we see quite a few and these are all the apps that are available in the games section now this is not going to be all of the applications that are available for the entire ubuntu platform these are just applications that are shown as options that you can install that are included in the default repositories basically the app store if you will now it's a bit more complicated than that i'm not going to get really deep into the theory around how this actually works but essentially you'll need to know how to install software which is what i'm about to show you so for example let's say you want to install minecraft so right here you have an option to install the minecraft installer we get a description and some information about the application before we install it and then here we have the install button so i'll click on that i'll put in my password and that's it that's really all there is to it you simply click on an application that you'd like to install and then you click the install button and then you just wait through the process and eventually it finishes and then you can go ahead and use the application now you'll notice that the install button changed to remove so i could click on that if i'd like to remove that application it should also show up in the menu and i had to scroll for it but here it is there's minecraft if i go back here to the home page and then the installed tab we get a list of all the software that's installed on our computer and we see the one that we've just added right here we also see quite a few applications that i did not install basically what you are seeing here are the applications that are pre-installed as well in addition to the ones that you install yourself so if any of these applications are just you know maybe there are applications you really don't want to have installed you could basically go ahead and remove them maybe i don't want to have games installed on my computer well i can remove it pretty easy and just like that it's gone we also have a tab right here for updates so if there's any updates available for the applications then we can click update all to go ahead and get those updated and that's pretty straightforward so when it all comes down to it this is what you will use most of the time to install software but the problem here is that not all of the applications that you might want to install are going to be available in ubuntu software so for example let's search for google chrome i'm sure this is one that a lot of you guys are probably going to install so let's search for it and you know what i'm not seeing it so google chrome is not available actually i already knew that because some applications out there are not actually committed to the ubuntu repositories and some developers just kind of keep those applications to themselves but it's still pretty easy to install though we could just open up a web browser firefox is pre-installed then we can actually search for the application that we would like to install and here we have the google chrome website i'll just click on that we have this download button here if i click on it it's automatically detecting that i am running on ubuntu this is the correct selection by default so we didn't actually have to do anything i can click accept and install i will save the file and it did download so let's open up a file manager in the downloads directory we actually have the file that we have just downloaded so if i double click on that i'll click install i'll type in the password for my user account and as you can see it's actually installed let's see if it's installed and it is so i'll click on it and it's working just fine so i will not make it the default firefox is actually my preferred browser but you know it's up to you and then i will uncheck this box here because i think google knows enough about me already so i'll click ok and as you can see we now have google chrome so every now and then you might have to install applications outside of ubuntu software google chrome is one example of that the licensing restrictions actually prevent google chrome from being made available in the normal software store but you get the idea sometimes you just have to download it and install it that way as you just saw so you just saw two ways of installing software on ubuntu either way you should now be able to go through and install any applications that you would like first you basically just check ubuntu software see if the application that you would like to install is located here if it is there you go if not just do a quick google search and you'll probably find what you're looking for i'll leave it up to you to explore the ubuntu software store and then install any applications that you may want so there you go so hopefully this video was helpful in getting you set up on ubuntu ubuntu has always been one of my favorite distributions it runs well on laptops desktops as well as servers and i think it's pretty cool so hopefully this video has helped you out if you like this video please click that like button because that lets youtube know that you want to see more content just like this and also make sure you subscribe because i have more ubuntu content coming and if you subscribe you'll be the first to see an alert as soon as i have new content available so until next time thanks for watching i really appreciate it and i'll see you again real soon [Music] so [Music] you

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Published: Thu Jan 28 2021