 So while watching the first episode of the Linus tech tips Linux challenge something came up while Linus was installing Linux That made me think that there's something that people don't know and that's not common knowledge And I'll admit that I didn't even know this until a few months ago So this is not something that Linux does a very good job of Saying that you need to do and it's actually really simple and it makes a ton of sense When you install Linux for the first time no matter what distro you're on run your update manager after your initial install do this No matter what and the reason why is because when you want to install software You have to pull that software from mirrors and if your mirrors are out of date chances are it won't install This is especially true on arch where you have to update those mirrors in order to connect to them Otherwise you'll get four or four errors because the security keys change and Things move around a lot. So you have to update those mirrors It happens on Ubuntu and Debian based distros as well You have to update your system before you even think of installing any software. So Really it makes a ton of sense because you need to update those mirrors in order to connect into those repositories and Install the software and if you haven't updated those mirrors are still out of date So this is really just a really small short video just to say Every time you install Linux update your system and I know that there's this myth around Linux saying that you don't need to update all that often You're never forced update and that's true You don't have to update if you don't want to or you can wait But you're gonna experience problems if you don't so update your systems immediately after install You'll solve just a ton of problems I'm pretty sure that Linus's problems with Papa West were because he didn't do an update now Maybe he did that off-camera, and I just don't know and the the problems were something different But I'm pretty sure that if he had updated like Luke did he would have faced nearly as many problems with With Papa West now why he had such problems with why has Install crashed I couldn't solve that problem without actually seeing it But I think the installing of steam would have worked fine had he updated the system first so Just a short video update your systems after install You can follow me on Twitter at Linuxcast. You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linuxcast That was a really poor transition before I go I'd like to take them out and thank my current patrons Devon Chris east coast web gen 2 fun to patrick all Marcus maiglin jackson devil tool steve a Mitchell art center amitaus merit camp Joshua lead j-dog and bsd rock. Thanks everybody for watching. See you next time You