 So I've been wanting to do a video for a while on this and it's all about getting started with Linux And I am going to choose a bun to because I do find it to be a very easy to install Easy to update operating system and we're doing a bare metal bare bones install right onto a machine Granted some visual box for demonstration purposes and we're going to get started Now part of the goal this is to teach people who have never used Linux and are coming from the Windows world How do they get started? How do they get going with Linux? Now some people might say hey Why not just set up a dual boot or they want to go grab an old computer to get this going a Couple problems with that is one your experience on an old computer is not going to be all that great Because well, it's old and slow and I don't want anyone to get the impression that Linux is old and slow So you in you naturally create a problem when people go Oh, I grabbed my eight-year-old or ten-year-old desktop and loaded Linux I don't know. I didn't really like it that much There was a do something you're going to use and why not a dual boot well once you can dual with the operating system You're probably not going to you'll just go. Well, it's conveniently in Windows and everything saved here And I do you just keep using it So if you really want to commit to using it you just kind of dive in there and start going so as I walk Through and obviously the install is pretty straightforward here We're going to want to download install updates do install third-party software now what that is is exactly like it says Third-party software for graphics Wi-Fi hardware flash mp3 and other media the concept in Linux is that everything should be open source Well a bunch who has made it convenient under installer by putting a checkbox on there to allow you to Load extra things that may not be open source. The purists will go No, you have to only load open source software I live in the real world and there's things I need to get done So I know there's some closed-source software on my computer one day Maybe they'll be open source but in the real world right now as what's available and to get my work done In conveniently play mp3 files. We're going to go ahead and download and install third-party Now this is a bun to sixteen point ten because it is December 2016 and it is the currently released version that is available now We're going to go ahead and erase the disk and install a bun to We're going to head and continue Now this auto completes which is convenient Set it to Detroit time Eastern time For here Detroit If you have custom layout you can do the can detect a custom keyboard Set a name now at least if you didn't do a full disk encryption do encrypt your home drive Set Thomas Thomas virtual box Set a password Something weak, but good enough because I got to type it a lot of times during these reboots do set a good password When you encrypt the home folder that means the operating its system itself will be accessible if you boot But anything within the home folder or if you're in the windows world the user folder Will be completely encrypted Don't lose your password. It's hard encryption. There's no easy way to reverse that actually there is no way to reverse that It just isn't gonna happen if you use a good password. It's pretty much brute force being away at it Hopefully you can get it get it unencrypted. It's not easy. So they use really strong encryption on here Okay, now it's going to start copying the files almost finished copying you can expand out It does tell you what it's doing for those you want to see This is one of those things I've always been annoying about the windows because we install a lot of windows And it doesn't tell me enough stuff. I'm like I want to know everything that's going on Linux does give you the option of that but they give you the option to hide it and just go Hey, I just watched the progress bar go across now. As I said, we're choosing Ubuntu as a distribution I like it. I'm familiar with it. I've used lots of other distributions I just find theirs to be stable easy to find support for through the Ubuntu forums So when you're starting out, it's a pretty good starting one The downsides are some people really don't like the unity interface. I've oddly bespeak. I don't know which grown on me I've been using Ubuntu for a really long time because Years ago, they were one of the first solid desktop distributions to do really really well Now my background comes from being a Linux admin and a Debian fan for a very long time And I've been adminning Debian machines since the 90s Since their earliest releases when everything was super difficult and to configure Things have gotten substantially easier or I've gotten smarter or some combination of the two has occurred So I will fast-forward through a little bit of this because watching it installs not that exciting It does go out and grab a lot of new files as it installs Which is a nice feature of these the Version like I said is sixteen point ten, which is there's a part of their standard release cycle You can get on the o4 versions as in like 16 o4 15 o4 14 o4 So on and so forth. Those are their long-term release versions The difference is being you're going to get the latest and greatest when you're using their Regular release cycles and just in case you didn't know the Ubuntu naming scheme. It's actually fairly easy to figure out 16 refers as in 2016 the year and o4 is the month And o and ten is the month. So that's october Or april for the releases So that's kind of how you figure out how the releases are going to go and they're consistently Every year once a year they do a new long-term lts or long-term support version And during the middle is in october is when they'll do their updated release What that means for long-term support is you don't necessarily get all the latest and greatest linux features But you are getting a code stable not going to change and don't need to upgrade your system That being said, I don't really mind the updates because I've done in place upgrades and not really had a problem the particular machine I'm using um I think three versions of in place upgrades three years of it two years three three years now I generally don't have a problem there. It's not like when when windows goes from Version to version and you have a major Upset of trying to run the upgrade if anyone's been around as long as me and you remember the windows 95 to 98 to me To windows 7 or windows xp upgrade pass that sometimes just break everything during the upgrade Windows 10 seem to go a little bit smoother for some people and a lot rougher for others But when in the linux world who buntu's got this pretty much figured out now some of the other distributions when they release new versions Don't allow upgrade you just have to back up your home folder reload and copy your home folder back Now because linux pulls from repositories and we're going to talk about package management here In packages you can actually go as far as the script And automatically reinstall the same applications again that came from the app store. You obviously ones that didn't come from their app store Their third party you would have to go back and download But it's not it's actually pretty Trouble-free and from scratch to set up doesn't take me too long to set up a linux box because Well, once I copy or my home drive the configuration settings for everything Important to your customizations go into your home folder in the config files So reinstalling the app it finds the same config files as long as it's the same version no problems And there are some linux distributions that don't do releases at all They do rolling releases which people think that's a new thing because they see windows 10 has gone to that That's not new for the linux world There's been other distributions for a little while that do what they refer to as a rolling release because they update everything Compartmentally as a component so a application gets an update and it doesn't change the version number of the linux So each core component can get updated as there's a new update available without doing a whole rewrite I actually see that probably being the future of some of the companies going more that way It has its own challenges, but for the most part we're just going to be talking about Ubuntu and their release cycles Installation is complete. So we reboot And now we're at a login prompt And it comes up with a list of keyboard shortcuts Because it's the first time we've logged in. Let's me know that there's a few different things to do So the first thing we do is open up the software updater because we want this to load updates for the software And there's always a few updates to go ahead and install now There's different ways you can do this I can do look at the detail I can do this from the command line and watch all the little details to it We're just going to head and run through the install and install now Also, this is another option. This is the kind of like a backup password for your Encrypted hard drive if you ever have to boot off a recovery There is a way a bunch who does have if you have the password they have a recovery method I highly recommend in case of any corruption Back up everything when you have an encrypted drive Make sure everything's backed up that way if something happens something gets corrupted or someone steals your laptop You can just replace all your files. So a good idea. You have a backup We'll talk about that later though, but for now we're just going to set up the encrypted passphrase All right, and we'll go ahead and load these updates and you can see all the details of what it's updating Install now And for every update, they're very very clear now. We're going to go ahead and show the command line now This uh, this you can think of as a uac in windows It's telling you that there's something at the system level not just the user space that needs to be replaced That's a more critical function. So it prompts you for another password basically to say I need elevator permissions because we're We're replacing a core component Which right now you can see it's downloading the linux kernel And it's actually going to show you because I expanded out exactly what it's replacing once again This is just something I really like in linux. You can look through and see exactly what files are being replaced as it does it Nothing's obscured and this can all be run from the command line As well if you want it even more detail because you can do configuration options that show you Like hey, you'll run this update and show me everything that you're doing Okay, now I know you're used to seeing restarts if you're a windows user Linux actually doesn't want to restart that often the only times it really does want to restart is when there is a kernel update For now one two is not running a tool called case place Which is an updated way you can patch kernels without having to restart that is using some of the server world It doesn't happen often only wonders new kernel releases. So we're gonna go ahead and reboot it All right server restarted and ready to get started and we can start by looking at maybe some of the system settings And we'll start customizing a little bit First let's cover a couple things one. You don't have a start button in here like you do or whatever you want to call it in windows 10 Linux there are some distributions now the difference between different distributions It really comes down to kind of the under Underworkings for one the package management system and the interface which is the top Ubuntu has a really popular base which a dump to Ubuntu itself is based off of the debian So it has the same package management But a bunch who used it unit use unity on top of it Unity like I said, there's some people that like it some people that don't I'm kind of used to it Then others ones are the kbuntu which is used the kde interface, which is really good eye candy It looks really nice It has its own little quirks to it But it's a nice interface and then there's the gnome buntu which uses the gnome interface And like I said, we're just going to cover unity for now when we I'm going to do some other distro reviews Kind of show the differences between them later, but that's a whole different video This is basically getting started with Ubuntu and their package management system, which is referred to as apt All right. So in the system settings here You have all your usual stuff security privacy power settings if it's a laptop So you can set power down times you can set them in here to Screen brightness options dim the screens lock the screen go back to the lock screen So they have to put the password in you turn it on and off now when you switch these There's not an apply button. They've gotten rid of that. It actually was in previous versions People are getting used to when you set a setting it sets So you don't want to do that screen display that's where you're going to change your resolutions and things like that This is a 1910 80 if you have multiple displays, they all show up here So you can configure all of your monitors I'll drag over this is uh mine You can see like, you know, I have a triple monitor sub so you can see all the different monitors Bring it back out of the way Back to our virtual box here. So it calls it by the screen name, which is virtual box So it calls it vbx zero if you notice in mind it might have been real small print But it actually labels them as each ace who's monitored. I have uh, you can change the rotation clockwise Whether or not you want the displays to display on each one Uh look for the launcher placement, uh, which is this is the launcher So we'll go back to here now kind of nice for navigation You have these uh things like that, but there's a couple things I don't like Uh that I usually change right away So you've got appearance again, we're going to go to behavior I kind of like this to auto hide. I'll leave it not auto hiding for now But if you noticed the menus are way over here. I don't know why they decided to do this Let's open up firefox for example Or even the file manager So here's the different windows for things and what you're going to notice there's no menus here They're up here That is silly to me. So uh, but one of the wonderful things about linux is the fact that you can really change these things So we're going to go ahead and change Uh in the windows title bar for show menu folders now Pressing alt displays them or we can tell them to be always displayed Um kind of always displayed makes sense to me. I know right where to click rather than clicking alt or mouse Overing them. I don't really I guess it makes a cleaner look because uh, let's see if you go here And we have them on They're all showing Display a mouse hovering It tells you what it is That just comes on a personal preference of how we want that auto hide Who's this right here? It'll auto hide this and you can make it so when the mouse over it comes back I'm not going to bother with that It's actually awkward for me because I'm using the middle screen to record this So I keep wanting my mouse to move past it instead of hovering over it Normally you put it at one end and it stops there and it stays sticky Enable workspaces now. This is a pretty neat feature Because what this does is you have different virtual workspaces There's been tools over the years to do this in windows Um, and they've always copied it off the fact that it's been a popular thing in linux These are four separate workspaces And it allows me to have Things in different ones and what this allows me to do is I can set up this workspace have a bunch of things open Jump over to this workspace and open different things So now we have like two mozilla ones over here And two things over here and then I can go over here and still have another workspace Um, you get used to working with this. It's pretty efficient because it allows you just to slide things around to different workspaces and then save them there I think something like this works in mac. I'm not much of a mac. I think they've had something like this for a little while too Uh, but there's a series of different commands We're that's a little bit more advanced to show you each little key command to move around workspaces But when you enable them, uh, they're a handy feature So you can be copying and setting up a bunch of files for someone over there Then have your web browser full screen and another one. So that's kind of your uh overview of the workspaces now Another feature you have Is whenever you're in A program pressing the super key, you know windows key for most people it allows you to search those commands Inside of each thing you're in so instead of going through here and it's probably more demoed with library office So there's a lot of things up here rows calendars, but if we do this Whoops It actually allows you to search Everything with the word row in it For each first row instead of having to go through and navigate the menus This has always been a feature and it's uh built into ubuntu And it's one of them that once you get used to using and you use a lot of tools that have a lot of menus You quit looking for the menus because you can just type in the first couple letters of the menu and pull the menu right up So that's always been pretty cool And it really handy to get things going. So you're like, okay I don't remember where this is and I don't want to go through the you know Each one to look for it. Uh, you can do it that way. Uh, like so that's built right in there into ubuntu Now here's where all of your applications are Now it is not showing much and you can then file and folder applications code graphics. It starts categorizing them But it also lets you search them So you can just type in different letters like we'll type in ca And we're going to find the calendar calc or the screenshot tool So we can open up the calendar pretty cool And pretty handy now if you want this to stay on the launcher, I just right click Lock to launcher. So now It's not in use and it's in use now ubuntu had some partnership with amazon and I thought It's kind of weird, but they put it on the launcher if you can just remove it Okay, so we have it all set up and configured and fire fox is on here But a lot of people are going wait a minute. I like chrome. That's fine. I kind of like chrome too I know I've surrendered part of my soul to the thing that is google Uh, but it works so well and I do use google apps and g-suite and it just works really well on chrome So let's talk about how you download and install things now because it's based on debian debian uses deb packages You can kind of think of them as an msi installer for windows and for different distributions. There are different packages So for debian, it's like it says that deb for red hat. It's rpm and like I said so on and so forth for each one out there each one has a different way they package things now Packaging is a little bit weird because they I'd like it to be universal, but there's disagreements in the open source world occasionally So it's less universal, but doesn't mean it doesn't have to be it's not confusing that much once you stick with one distribution You stay with it That's part of the reason a lot of people do is because they get familiar with the package manager now the package manager is referred to as apt in Debian and I that carries over into ubuntu even though they are moving over to another system called snap But right now apt is still the way to go And you apt get from their software repositories and pull in different software. So we're going to start by let's get cool chrome Yeah, show me Default there We'll just quit in Chrome Oh, look, it's the first result Download chrome Now we I did load 64 bit. So we're going to load the debian ubuntu 64 bit dot deb file. We're going to do an accepted install Open with software install default Let's go ahead and show you how to do this in the command line. It's really not that hard I like to do it this way a little bit better Because it'll tell you what it's doing. So if you type in t er for terminal You can open up the terminal cd down downloads There's the file because by default it's going to go to downloads and we would do super user do dp k g dash I for install And what i'm doing is a tab autocomplete So I type in g o is the only file in here with that name and this is how you would install it from the command line Which is pretty straightforward but We do this it's going to ask you for your password And it should fail because it's going to find something it needs now. This is actually kind of an Uh feature that confuses people But also is really easy to fix So it failed it says errors were encountered Encountered while doing this process sudo apt get Install dash f which means fix whatever failed which means google says hey you tried to load this But we're missing this other package You would have got a series of prompts that you just say okay too if you want to do it from there I like seeing everything it's going to load So if I do this it says hey, here's all those things are missing you want to go ahead and load them Which it'll say it needed a lib app indicator one and lib bind indicator seven and just press enter It goes and fetches them and goes okay. I'm going to finish putting google chrome in here Done now we can open up google chrome Now go ahead make it the default web browser too So that is the combination, you know, uh, how to install things on there now if you wanted to remove google chrome It's pretty straightforward as well. We can go to sudo super user do that's basically your uac saying run this a super user And where you use the apt get tool to remove and we could say I think it was called google chrome Google chrome confirm And it is now Uninstalled from the system So pretty neat and let's go to our files and let's sign install it again Go to downloads and we'll do it the other way just to show you both ways you can do this Open with the software install. We're going to just double click to The software contains third party non-free components And it'll finish the install after a prompt here So both ways work. I just am partial to the command line one I know it to I like watching everything that's going on behind the scenes with my computer I like to say hey, what's it doing? What's it doing behind there? But you know, this is where a bunch is really nice It does give the option to hide all that and say there you go We took care of all those little things we did all those commands for you and you're done It's installed. So that's a nice feature of the software center But like I said, we can talk both about the command line and that so now we have google chrome installed in here Now what other software do we need? I like to do video editing and that is not The latest version is not available. So we can actually do From the command line and amongst make this a little bit bigger And we'll make it a little bit easier to read. So let's go to the preferences here. I usually do this with my terminals profile edit color Green on black I don't know that just looks better to me. And now that's saved Uh view we'll do zoom in Zoom in and we'll set the terminal size a little bit smaller So you can see what I'm typing. All right So Because everything's through a package management system when you go app get update It's listing out All these different packages that where it's pulling the packages from now with windows. You only have windows update And it's one in each tool. Let's say adobe has their own updater And google chrome has a chrome updater. Well in the in the linux world They consolidated all of these with the app system. So each company can add their own List and it it's handled by the pack word package manager. So we're going to open up the software updater And it performs these queries when I open it up Go to settings because we want to see the detail Other software and right here it is dl.google.com. That means google has their own packages and they've now added it You can also add edit or remove other software on here So if you have an application that you want to add in here Um, because you want another tool that is not available through the Ubuntu repositories Uh, for example, like google google maintains the packages for it now This one windows compared to the windows updater picture windows updater instead of every tool having their own update It's one central update for the system that updates all the other software that you've loaded on the system Um, here's the different updates download daily weekly you can choose like lots of details This is also for the driver options. You can have updates for the drivers Um, these are what they refer to as signing keys. These are really important. So when you're adding things on there It will do things Such as making sure that the software is authenticated from the source and uses a signing key to make sure no Weird software gets in there that wasn't signed by the author, which is really important for security This also allows you to download source code for any of these which is really nice Uh, it chooses the server that you want to download from i'm close to canada. So I guess it defaulted to canada. I don't know Um, kind of neat too. You can add cd roms, uh, or dvds as static sources for them And what that means is let's say you loaded a bunch of it didn't load all the features You can load a static source, uh, such as a dvd, which has lots of software on here And it can pull from that a software downside is it's not going to pull the latest version because it's going to pull from the dvd Uh, so only if you're in some type of limited or low bandwidth place, maybe you want to do that Now let's talk about uh, some of the custom software I use In adding a ppa. This is pretty cool. So let's go to kaden live Which is the video editing software that I use Now ppas are the third party repositories for software And now kaden live is actually in the ubuntu universe But for one reason or another and I don't get in all the details of this Um, they may not have the latest and greatest version So the kaden live people offer their own Ppa for it and because a lot of things are built off of debian They have options for debian and ubuntu, which not just dot deb files that are compiled for them But they have the ppas And it's pretty easy to uh, do a ppa. You can literally copy and paste You're not really supposed to copy and paste things Um off of web because you can do hidden stuff But as long as you're making sure you get the command right So sudo apt get repository ppa kaden live or do a copy Paste We press enter. We're confirming. We're adding another library also because I had done sudo Previously and typed in the password basically like I said, it's like a uac It doesn't bug me about it every time unless I close this session And open it again, then it's gonna ask me again But now we want to do a sudo apt get update and what that does first now we've added to the repositories And I'm doing this in a command line I could open up the software update or you could see it again But now we see there's more things in here So we have ppa launchpad kaden live ppa this here and what this is downloading more information about those And it just added to my list of software that I can install So now when I say install kaden Live and I'm auto completing again by pressing tab There's all kinds of libraries that it has and this is where it gets really smart It goes these are all the things you need to install And these are the versions that we need to install with it So we're going to press enter and it's going to rip through and download and install All the things needed for kaden live and add it to the menus So like I said, it's not too hard and they're telling you right away Inside of here how to do it and let me show you back on the other page It literally is this command then sudo apt get update to update the fact that your library and it keeps Aki League a locally cached library of all the software available in all the thousands of packages And then you pick the package you want to install apt get install kaden live Now it handles this really smooth because the other thing that it's actually doing Kaden live is available in a bunch too, but it's not the same version It's not as new as the version that i'm downloading right now directly from the ppa Extra library for kaden live. So it looks at the two versions and pulls in whichever one's newer So it goes well. I found this package in both, but the one inside of The ppa here was newer. So we're going to pull that one And this is how you can add some of these third party softwares To a bunch too and keep them all up to date and like I said, this shows up back in the software list So every time I have these updates to run which I have it run to all my computers by default look daily at updates And so if there's anything new from any one of those update sources It says, hey, there's new software to install and prompts me and I click install In it's always the joke with linux people going what new cool thing did I get with a new update? We don't really are we're bothered much by updates in linux one They go fairly fast most of the time is spent downloading and installing granted I am running on an ssd, but the updates are very clear about what they're doing and they install really really fast The way the system is it's only has to replace Each part one of the problems I'm seeing in windows and especially with these new roll-up updates It's becoming these larger monolithic updates that seem to take forever to get installed And uh, like I said, this has been a big advantage with the bun two and some of these Right now we're downloading almost 300 megabytes and middle of the day at my office And it's not going as fast as I like, but it's still reasonably fast Once you see it kicks off the actual part of the install it rips through it really fast None of the updates really take that long All right now it's done and installed now one of the fun things you can do in here And I'm just pressing the up arrow to bring this back is if you have a list of software that you want to install And I've actually done this I make a little list of all the things I install You could write this into a script and you can tie everything together So I know I like to install uh, nmap Zunmap uh the There's another tool called genie, which is a editor tool G a n Why I'm we're going to put a uh Star after it because it what it's doing is showing all the plugins and in press center And what it just did by putting an asterisk after genie and those other ones You can string the command together and say just install all these things And so when I set up a new laptop, I type in drop in one really long string for everything And it just throws everything together and in there and installs it for me So when that's why it doesn't take too long when you're pulling things out of the repository Add the couple ppas that you have which for me is only the only ones I add is for obs Which is open broadcast system, which is the one I use for recording these videos And kaden live most everything else I want is inside the repository So I just dropped an apt get install string and a whole list only separated by spaces with all the different tools That I need on my computer because I just kind of make a list of the programs I use And it'll run through set them all up and configure them for me And in the case of a reinstall, let's say from a crash hard drive All of your settings files, we're going to show you where those are in your home It realizes where they are and says, oh, there's all your configurations We'll just bring everything right over with it So let's look at the directory structure here So here's my home and the config files are all hidden And I'll show you how you see them La means you know show all and list them all And this is the a wrapper for the uh, the Ecrypt FS, which is the encrypted desktop It's hidden from you to you to see your folder. I have my dot profile dot pki dot templates dot x authority x session That seems confusing. So let's actually look at it from here where it's less confusing So by default, like I said, there's my downloads You have documents Downloads music pictures very similar to way windows does, but we're going to hit control h And alls I did was say show me those hidden files and You have all the different places where things are setting and all your settings now Mozilla, for example, has its own dot Mozilla folder with that So Here's my dot config and these are some of the uh, ui config settings evolution gnome settings Google chrome stores here lots of things store things under dot config So these are the files basically that you're copy over when you're doing a backup And this is where all of your settings get brought over to a new system So anything new you add gets set up inside of here Now just because I installed the program actually doesn't mean that there's automatically a file for it here some of them At when you first open them, that's when they start creating the dot config files So that's just kind of a quick overview. We're not going to get too in-depth on it But just so you know where they're at they're not hidden and I that means when you're backing up You just have to really back up your home folder And that can be as simple as just copying everything in foam And everything from your home folder to an external hard drive preferably something encrypted Which isn't that hard to do I can I'll do another tutorial and just how to set up encrypted drives When you format it's a checkbox and you set a password for The drive and it's encrypted any other linux box can decrypt it that's running Ubuntu or a lot of other different flavors Because it's using a commonly used open source encryption system for disk encryption So let's close this Go back over here and we'll talk a little bit more about file system navigation and customization actually Customizations pretty straightforward. Uh, you can change things in here They don't give you a ton of tools out of the box to customize it other than Uh, like, you know changing the wallpaper and things like that If you want to get more in-depth there is a unity tweak tools We're going to open up the terminal again, and I guess we'll load that real quick So I guess customization is an important part of this We'll just run a we'll make this a little bigger to make it easier to read Now because I closed it when I type sudo it's going to prompt me for a password again The unity tweak tool after get install unity tweak And this actually allows you to install some of the different themes But this allows you to control some of the different Features in here, uh You can customize the panel the time the clock the web apps It's basically unity tweak tools a free tool to Unlock a lot more details about how everything works So you can make it to wiggle or pulse or open applications in the background show desktop icon Uh, gives you just a whole lot of things the way it scrolls fonts cursures You can change themes This is kind of a white theme that's in here. You can get different themes I we actually run the new mix theme, which is kind of neat. So We'll cover that maybe in its own episode But this is the tool that lets you start tweaking and breaking things if you really want to start Customizing it. It is an option. That's one nice thing about linux is they everything's kind of opened up a bunch of themselves Really ship it. They want you to just use it, but you want to start digging more into it Absolutely the tweak tool and have fun All right file navigation now By default when I open that up we're in home And there's the option in here. We can open this in tabs. So we can open them actually lots of tabs documents downloads, uh That's a shortcut, so we'll open this one And now you can see in this one. I have that and then I can go over here pictures open up another one and we can kind of Create new folder And then have that one in a different tab Now that's all pretty neat. So let's show you what it looks like when we actually start copying files So we're going to Copy to the documents That was a little fast. So it didn't really have much to tell me Uh, let me find a big file here now to open up window shares. This is important when you're up here Control l Brings up this now. This actually autocompletes as well. So we can look at the root here We can use the autocomplete feature So as we type it automatically figures out what the next possible is Or you can just click through it You can go smb which for server message block So that is how we connect to one of our window shares connect to my computer connect to my shared folder And now if we want to just say copy a file, so let's find something I can copy that's not too big And oh just like windows. Here's your sorting options How you want to view things columns? Let's grab this one file now. We can do a copy Copy to the home folder here And it copied right over Let me find a file that's bigger to actually give us a uh Trash now you also when you trash something you can undo it There is a garbage at the bottom just like a recycle bin and windows So if we delete this empty And it's gone. So a lot of the same functionality that you might be familiar with in windows you can find inside of here Now also once you've connected to a server it stays connected. So let's go back over here to video I'll pull it up as a list Let's find some other some of my video stuff here Find something a little bit bigger right here copy paste And it brings up the dialogue but for larger copies These are kind of cool because it'll start showing you all the different files you're copying from different locations into here And it's kind of neat. They show up everywhere. You can hide them by clicking on them And when they're done you can see the history of larger files that have been copied So kind of neat Now for searching and finding files, so we're going to delete this because we don't need it in here Uh revert to previous versions. Some of that compressed properties. Those are in there If you want to zip it you can hit compress that works as well. So when moving to the trash But when you need to find a file, this is your search function And it searches through all the documents on there and can quickly find things So now back to the server because I'm connected to it This disconnects you from that share. This keeps you connected to the share So you can always just go back to it You also have an option to add shares as a bookmark That way you don't have to type them in each time like this And they'll stay statically linked right down here. You can do the same for Individual folders. So once you find any folder you want, this is my video archive folder, for example You can take and pin any one of these as a bookmark All right into bookmark another folder We're just going to go to you can bookmark this location and there it'll give me the entire one if you mouse over it You're going to see that it pulls up where it is that I'm pulling that from Now I don't really like the way they did this but it's fine once you're used to it File new window is up here preferences to change things and customize the default behaviors But they didn't put they took away new folder which used to be here and they took it away They moved it over to here. So when you want to create a new folder somewhere, you just do it right here Or you can right click within the folder not a big deal But it's something to note that they what they refer to now is the hamburger menu and lots of things like android net have gone to this Lots of things go to the hamburger menu to do this also enter location is here But you also as I said control l does this as well that takes it out of Like the default view to that So you can actually just type on there now if you notice also The slashes are trailing inverted to the way they do in windows. Uh, they are falling forward slash versus backslashes When you're connecting to things that included when I connected to the different servers It's smb colon forward slash forward slash not backslash backslash So they're they're going the other way just something to note when you're typing things in And I guess that's one of those things that when you jump back and forth through windows I don't think about as much because I do both Uh, but if once you're staying in one system for so long, you got to remember the slashes go the other way in some circumstances They're more like they are in a web whether the slashes are uh, like they are on a web They've always been backwards in windows when you're doing file sharing At least backwards to me because I've used Linux for so long So that's kind of the basics how you you know navigate around the file system one more thing you can do That's really cool SFTP So you can type in s ftp colon slash slash I'm going to go ahead and put the username which is pi Uh 192.168.3.14 which is my raspberry pi Go ahead and log in anyways Now what this allowed me to do is I'm now connected to the root of the raspberry pi file system and I can bookmark it. I can treat like any else. So this one's a samba share and this one's a raspberry pi share So as you can see connected to the pi It's just like being connected to the windows server and I'll stretch this out a little more So this is a samba share. This is actually an sftp versus an smb share. So it's actually sharing over ssh But this becomes really handy for when I work on websites because I can just sftp into a website leave it connected And I can copy files back and forth not to mention All right when I'm opening things I can open them and edit them right on that server over sftp and it works all the same Now one of the things I did install here was another application called genie. So we're going to select genie now to open this And now I can open it with this and edit it now This makes it really nice because I can edit copies Some of the copies can be on here and then we can open a file over here And be editing it and open a file on here And I can use one application even though it has now spanned all the different files And this like I said, it becomes Really seamless for me in linux because the file manager is allowing me to connect to all these different things So view all applications and I know this is an xml file. So if I open this with genie Now we've opened one file on one server another file on another server neither one of these are local So this allows a lot of people especially if you're doing code editing and compiling It makes linux very favorable to them because it's really easy for them To navigate all these different file systems connect them all to one machine and work remotely on them and edit So all the execution can be occurring on another server You're doing all the command editing from here and then you can go there for the execution So it's kind of an overview to get you started with linux. Um, I'm also using a few other let's Go ahead and throw in one more program on here. So we can apt get whoops Don't forget to do this actually this will happen to you a lot and I'll show you what it does I have to get install k my money Could not open the lock file and the first thing you go permission to died and then people google it and they forgot to put Super user due to give you the elevator permission to allow you to install the software And then this will install the new version of the K my money software Like I said, I like doing this from the command line and most of these websites you go to you can do it this way Um, it tells you what the command is to install them right out of there I didn't have to add as repository. It's built right into the ubuntu System they generally most of the packages are really up to date The the video editing software that kaden live does not seem to be as up to date inside the ubuntu universe And I like to have cutting edge because I added so many videos All right now that installed that program Which is the program I use for managing all my ledger and everything for my business For application management and you can find a lot of Equivalent to so depending on what you want to do you can find different software to Replace whatever you're trying to do in windows For me, you know quickbooks. I'm not a big fan of it They do have quickbooks online, which most things do work through a web browser nowadays Which makes running linux way easier than ever before But for things like financial management, not a fan of it I use the k my money I've done a whole tutorial on just this program for using it for business ledgers But it's really really full featured and oddly cross cross platform as well So you can get this for your windows machines as well But like I said not hard to install You most of the different programs you want for linux you could generally go around and find a way to install them Or find an equivalent Version I should say not really find a way to install them easy to install them Find an equivalent version for what you're trying to get done So I just want to do this video. It's kind of a getting started and talking about linux I will show you this because I'm going to shut this machine down. This is my virtual machine And I'll show you how I run windows inside of this So this is my virtual box and this is my Problem solver so to speak. So yes, I have a windows 7 and a window xp Turns out my check writing program does not support linux Shocker right and I haven't found a good check writing program Because I actually get the check stock and replace it. I can print my checks in linux I just can't the actual Production of the stock So what we do is we fire up a virtual box and I run windows inside of it The other thing I do is photoshop I just have tried with gimp and kira is really coming along Both of those are really cool tools and neither of them Are all that great in terms of compared to photoshop I have done design work for almost 15 or 16 years with you know Since the earliest versions of photoshop and once you're used to using it It's really hard to get away now. I don't dual boot like I said that way I'm focused on linux and this was how I got started in this years ago Was running linux as my primary os and then I just use virtual box, which is free easy to install I believe they have a ppa as well, but you can download and run it and install it I can't download install virtual box It gives an error if you run virtual box inside of a virtual box last time I checked But this is my solution for that one thing I have to do in windows or if I have to test something in windows I should probably do a whole tutorial on just how virtual box works and sets that up Maybe that'll be another video if I get around to it soon enough Maybe I'll get it done today Um, but with virtual box that allows me to run any windows apps that I need to run And I can just install in windows now the other thing with virtual box is it creates snapshots So I can say create a snapshot of this try install do a demo of some software Roll it right back and away we go. It deletes everything that I did That's another advantage of virtual box, but this keeps this is like when I just can't do something inside of linux Yes, I will admit I do have to run windows for some things photoshop being one of them I've followed the tutorials photoshop. I've always had font problems with Following tutorials and trying to get it work properly in a bunch too So that's kind of been my week spot week spot getting that done So questions and comments leave them below and Reach out to me. I love converting people over to linux And I'll be working on more and more detailed videos and some of the different tools But if you've got our things you'd like to know about this, uh, please reach out. Let me know And thank you very much for listening. I'll like to subscribe if you like the content here. Appreciate it. Thanks. Bye