All language subtitles for 4_Installing Linux

Now that we've seen how
Windows is installed,

let's go ahead and install
the Linux operating system.

Remember how I said
that Linux has

many different versions of

their operating system
called distributions?

There are countless articles
that highlights the pros

and cons of the hundreds of
distributions out there.

We'll go with the most popular

consumer distribution, Ubuntu.

I've already loaded Ubuntu on
a plain USB drive pro tip.

Since the Ubuntu is open source,

you can download the free

operating system installed image

directly from their website and

install it using
whatever media you like.

I've included a link to it

in the next
supplemental reading.

I should also call out
that you can't just copy

the install file to a USB
drive and expect it to work.

It has to be copied
in a way that makes

a USB device bootable
from our bios.

To load the image onto

your USB device and
make it bootable,

you can use a tool
like etcher.io.

Go power on. Remember
we're going to make sure

that we want to boot
from the USB device.

Now that it's loaded, you'll see

an option if you
want to try using

the operating system first

or just install the
operating system,

we're going to do a fresh
install the operating system.

The Ubuntu logo will pop

up and then we're going
to have to go through

a couple of loading screens

while the system is installing.

We're just going to go ahead
and skip through all of

these and just pick
the defaults for now.

Now, it asks us for our name,

a computer name or host
name then a username.

The host name is
used to identify

the computer when
it needs to talk to

other computers or
personal computer it's

common to just use our own
names for our computer's name.

But an IT organization,

we want to choose a
good host name that

follows a certain
standardization.

We'll go over that
in a later lesson.

But for now, let's just use

an industry standard for

hosting like username
dash location.

I'm going to go and
enter in my name, Cindy.

Then for the host name field,

I'm going to type Cindy- NYC.

Then for the password, we're
just going to password here.

Then we're going to confirm.

Then we're going to
hit Next. Then it'll

ask us to re-start
once it's done.

Also now that's restarted.

Let's go ahead and login.

Great. Now we're in the
Ubuntu desktop environment.

Here you can see where
applications are laid out.

On the left-hand side here we

have a doc that we
can add shortcuts to.

This layout may change
since the Ubuntu is

changing their desktop
environment in the near future.

On the top right-hand bar here,

you'll see quick settings
for your computer,

like network connectivity,

Bluetooth connectivity,
sound and volume.

There's also the time,

a menu to power off,

restart, sleep, and log
out of your machine.

Let's click on this menu
and select system settings.

From here, you can change

your system settings
like your screensaver,

resolution, hardware
settings and more.

Let's go back to our desktop and

select this icon here for files.

This opens up a window so
we can view our files.

You can see the different
files and folders here.

If I click on computer,

I'm taken to the main
directory of my system.

We're going to get to this
in depth in a later course.

For now, I'm just going to
head back to my desktop.

Now, let's do the
exact same thing we

did with our Windows
machine and create a file.

This time, let's just use
commands in the shell.

Because we're a GUI,

we don't have a program called

bash that we run
our commands in.

Instead we open up
the search utility

here and search for an
application called Terminal.

When you open up the Terminal,

you will see your
username and add symbol,

the host name, colon,

Tilda, and then slash desktop
as your command prompt.

This is used to show who's
running the command.

This will be more important in

another course as
you switch users.

The last portion of the prompt

shows you where you
are on the computer,

we'll learn more about
this in a later lesson 2.

But you can see that we're
currently in our desktop.

You can verify that we're using

the Bash shell with
a simple command,

echo, dollar sign shell.

The echo command just prints

out texts options
to the display.

In this case, the argument
dollar sign shell is

the current shell/
bin/bash or Bash.

You could even do echo hello.

It will display hello,
which isn't as useful.

Let's create a
file in our shell.

Could you use the touch command?

Touch my super cool file.

Here you can see it made
a file on our desktop.

There are many different
commands you can use to make

a file with the touch command
is one of the simpler ones.

Right now, it might be hard to

understand why you
have to memorize

Linux shell commands when

it's easier to use
a Windows GUI.

If you'll be working
with any Linux machines,

it's essential that you
know these commands.