Windows 10 to Linux Mint | Installation

so I just went over the introduction so let's get into the installation of Linux Mint we're gonna go ahead and create a thumb drive go over the actual install process I will be putting timestamps down in the description so check for those if you need to check back on a certain spot that way you can easily go through it so let's not waste any time jump on the desktop and get into it I do live stream every Monday and Friday so if you have a question for me be sure and stop in to my twitch channel and ask me live and if you'd like to check out these streams after the fact you can always head over to chris titus tech streams and check out my entire archive over there alright to start out with before we get to the installation we obviously need installation media so i'm going to be using etcher for this because you need a working computer and a thumb drive but at the same time this will work on anything so going to this website i'm on linux here but if you're on Windows or Mac just get your corresponding installer and do it we'll go ahead and download it for Linux right now also for downloading we need to download Linux Mint I'll be doing Linux Mint LM de4 so this version is based on Ubuntu this version is based on Debian not much difference between the two so with that I'm gonna let these two finish downloading and then I'll go ahead and launch this from the Downloads folder alright over in the Downloads folder we have Etra that we just have and then the Linux Mint that we downloaded we'll go ahead and extract this here and this right here is an app image so if you're on Linux I just make sure you go to if you don't have the run command just make sure it is executable in properties you can look to say hey allow executing this program more likely than not it'll be like mine and you don't have to worry about this so we'll go ahead and run this file and then it'll say ok what do you want to do and we'll go ahead and select the image from our downloads folder that Linux Mint will hit open if yours doesn't look like that it's ok make sure you have that USB drive in and that is so selected will hit flash this will take probably about five to ten minutes all right I'm starting up the system right now I have everything in went ahead and made that installation maybe we just made put it into the actual system back there so if you hit delete or f2 on your startup you can actually go into the boot menu I usually like to boot from my BIOS as when you go to like the last screen you can usually do a boot override and boot directly from that USB we just made so here's the first thing whether to do UEFI or regular boot you can do either one typically UEFI is a little newer and if you have a really large drive over two terabytes I highly recommend sticking to UEFI however if it's an older system definitely just stick with the regular one honestly if you're not using a two terabyte drive it really doesn't matter the only thing this will dictate is how good your startup looks and most people don't even care how their startup looks so a lot of people are fans of legacy which is this one and UEFI is the newer one you really can't go wrong but if you do have problems during the installation try switching the other one as that might fix your problem and some laptops will only offer UEFI as well so we'll select UEFI and we'll go ahead and select our installation now obviously if we're using an Nvidia driver we would start it here we are not so we're gonna just start regular okay starting out here this is what you boot into from our installation media we'll just come over to install Linux Mint and go over the installation process go ahead and hit next to install select your language select your time zone I'm in Americas and I'm Central Time so I'm gonna pick Chico go keyboard layout and then we'll just go ahead and select our name now there's a couple things here we can log in automatically or go ahead and be presented a login screen that's entirely up to you if you're worried about other people in your household using your computer obviously require a login for me I'm the only person that's gonna be logging into this computer so I'm gonna say login automatically so we'll go ahead and hit next as far as encrypt my home folder I'm not gonna bother with that as I would mainly use this if I was using a laptop encrypting your home folder is really good because that's where your sensitive data usually resides and if someone steals your laptop or something like that having an encrypted and even if they were able to pull the hard drive out and grab the data it would be encrypted and they wouldn't be able to see anything which is good all right we're gonna go automated select our disk and then right now it'll be erase the entire disk and install everything on it that it needs by all means usually I stick to the automated installation as manual partitioning can get complicated as far as using LVM and other things just know I did an entire video on LVM so if you are curious you can check out that video but just know you can do multiple disks and like tie in several disks into a single volume and other fun things with LVM but if you only have one drive in your system it's kind of a waste so no most cases I don't use LVM and since this computer only has one drive in it we're not going to use LVM so we'll go ahead and hit yes to this and this will basically format it and we always want to install the boot menu as we want it to boot and review the summary and click install typically the install processes takes about five to ten minutes now right here it's a partition table could not be written too start the computer and try again now there's a couple things that can cause this typically this is from UEFI as that's what we booted into we can fix this sometimes by wiping out all partitions or we could just boot into legacy and just do legacy install so from here I'm gonna go ahead switch over to legacy as at this point I don't think it I want to keep this for beginner levels and manually editing a computer can be a little difficult all right we're back in our BIOS now we're gonna go back over to here in this time instead of booting into UEFI we're gonna just boot into P and why that's my USB Drive and this does legacy boot let's see if we have problems installing it now all right we're back on our desktop and let's start the installation again select all the same options and get back to our installation process everything type back in we'll hit next and again we'll go ahead and try to format this one more time now I think I suspect this one fail because this is a rather old PC almost uh probably about nine years old so that can fail sometimes when trying to do UEFI on the older system as you if I was rather new and then this system came out so we'll go ahead and install the boot menu onto here review our settings click install and see what we get as you see all the copying started so of course that was the issue this old PC just couldn't do UEFI so we went to legacy so I'll go ahead fast-forward through all of this part and installation is finished this took roughly 3 to 4 minutes to install on an older base machine so that's kind of insane that you have such an old PC like this that I'm installing but that's also kind of the power of Linux so we'll go ahead and hit yes to restart the system alright we'll go ahead and remove our installation and press enter alright here's the standard boot screen we can remove this and I kind of go over the customization of this but honestly you can leave it five seconds at boots it gives you options there to basically fix your system if something were to go awry so I wouldn't recommend removing it just yet as we're during the setup process alright and we aboot it into the system it was really neat to see from between we finished installation and the time we actually get to the desktop was about sixty seconds or a little bit less than that that's incredibly powerful to have a system built in this time and be able to do it I mean that's one of the big reasons why I cover a Linux so much and because on Windows there's just a huge long wait you could wait five minutes why it get your PC ready on Windows 10 so with that we'll go through the first steps here on Linux Mint typically I disable this startup but if you're a complete noob to it it's worth going through they have a really nice documentation section so going through this welcome screen might be for you but for me I don't like it so I'm gonna go ahead and close out and we are on here now the very first thing I always do is update the system as that's what you do anytime you install any OS so I'll click update manager and go ahead and walk through these steps so the first thing is like do you want to switch to a local mirror local mirrors are usually faster than packages dot Linux Mint com you always want to say yes to this it'll go ahead and do that so let's type in our password we did during setup and it'll go ahead and figure out what's the closest mirror to you and your location this makes things way faster so I definitely always do that so what you do is click on the main debian package right here and when you click on that let all these kind of go ahead and go through and then sort by speed so let's see if there's a faster mirror out there for me all right in my case the official mirror was the fastest mirror so I'll go ahead and hit apply to that keep it there and we'll go ahead and cancel this because we also need to update the debian base mirror as well so let's go ahead query it and see what the fastest mirror is all right so now we've got our mirrors on the Debian side of things you'll notice the official mirror was 3.8 megabytes per second download and this one right here is 7.3 even though we just wasted probably three to four minutes finding the perfect mirror this is worth doing as we effectively doubled our download speed when we go to update our system so I always recommend going through as you may not be lucky these official repos if you're in Europe I know will be a lot slower than your local mirror so that's why I always go through double check to make sure I get the fastest connection possible on any installation I do so we'll go ahead and hit OK to refresh the cache alright and we're pretty much done with the software sources' we'll go ahead and close out of this everything's right here is good we'll go ahead and refresh this one last time before we leave just to see if there's any update packages and as you see there are so we'll go ahead and install all these that we can now answer no to this and hit install updates no prompt for our password we'll enter that in and it will go through and update all our packages well let's see how fast this goes as far as an update it's 1701 or 5:00 o'clock at night just a little bit past that hour and as you see switching out those mirrors might have seemed like it took a long time but now that we're getting eight or nine megabytes per second download that's a huge huge download rate to where we're now updating our system and you know 60 seconds maybe two minutes and that's just well worth the actual switch on the mirrors as this would have taken as much time as it was to set it up initially so very important always switch your mirrors out all right now everything's up to date now with Linux usually you don't even need to reboot after your updates however if it does update the Linux kernel I do recommend rebooting but for today's video I'm not gonna reboot until we're all finished so I will go ahead and continue working through here you can kind of just walk through a couple things through the Start menu a very very reminiscent of Windows in this regard you have all applications if you need anything in particular you could just go up to here and you know what I need Firefox and it'll pull that in so very intuitive as far as this goes we can select that that's the software manager that we can actually go ahead and pick applications so let's say we wanted to install steam let's go ahead and grab that or multimedia codecs let's say we want to play movies I definitely recommend getting multimedia code access that's something that most people want so we'll go ahead and hit continue and again we'll need to sign in so that should install we'll go ahead and it back and look at any other packages maybe to round this out I think we can go ahead and grab VLC is that's a good media player viewer if we wanted to actually play anything through here we'll go ahead and hit continue here as well and see if play some games through Steam as well let's go ahead and grab it and we'll go ahead and install you'll notice not prompting for a password this time around it's just saying hey these extra things are needed and what it does is it's kind of neat it actually queues up everything that's being installed so we can actually go through and just pick out everything we need from the software manager here now under system settings on our Start menu this little button right here we can do some cool stuff so we can actually change our themes around and other things so in the next video we're going to get into all kinds of customizations I just want to kind of touch on the basics of just the initial install and setup of Linux Mint and just some basic install of program so from here we can do a lot of things but we'll go ahead and save all the customization for the next video

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Length: 14min 2sec (842 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 30 2020