Linux for Beginners

Tired of trying Linux and then just going right back to Windows? Well this is the video for you to understand Linux a LOT better!

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Timestamps:
00:00 Linux Possibilities and Limitations
03:55 Starting Off and First Steps
08:33 First Install
09:43 First Boot and Config
11:53 First Terminal and REQUIRED Steps
13:25 After Reboot and Additional Config
16:10 Options in File Browsing and Other Programs
18:27 Changing the Desktop Environment
24:11 My Setup .

[MatrixSanAndreasOfficial]

Thanks for your patience for people who are new to linux.

[codychilders]

A class on hot keys would be nice.

I used to work for an auto parts store and they used Linux. Their program for receiving and selling and looking up parts was amazing with hot keys. We could run through the entire program and get exactly what we wanted before the GUI would even load the next interface. It was highly productive.

[AuronJ]

I think the most important point was the one you made a the end. I tried using Linux for the first time back in college and did not like it at all, it just didn't work how I wanted it to and I kept getting frustrated.

A few years later I had a server I wanted to set up and an old laptop I wanted to get running again. Both situations would be best done in Linux so I just buckled down and worked through the issues and I realized that my biggest problem running Linux the first time was that I didn't actually want to run Linux. I wanted to run "Windows but better", and that is not what Linux is. Once I stopped thinking about it in comparison to Windows all the time it was much easier to grasp.

Linux is not "better Windows" its Linux and you will have the best time if you treat it that way.

[EstebanGT]

You’re one of the few people well versed in Linux that goes back to the basics and educates newcomers. Keep up the awesome work you’re doing!

[ArniesTech]

Linux for Beginners has such a huge potential for an entire video series. 💪🤔

[deadlinerhorus]

i like the calm way Chris describes the basics while not flooding us with to much deep tech vocabulary, its clean and always straight to follow! Thanks for teaching my Father.

[torphedo]

Man, this brings back some memories...I remember the first time I tried running Linux Mint, I spent like half an hour just looking through all the different folders at root trying to understand what they were all for. That was a fun little night

[whiskeylinux]

20+ year Linux user here. Great content Chris! Love it.

[austinfelling]

You have explained Linux in your videos better than my Linux 1 professor ever could. Thank you so much for these, really took the difficulty out of the learning process.

[rxxn]

As someone that has tried linux a few times, and always feels like I don't know wtf I'm really doing, I really appreciate this type of content. A lot of other videos I've seen aren't very helpful and are really just distro recommendations. Thanks a lot for the video Chris!

[wii]

Pretty sure most users left after he opened the terminal

[TopJewShalom]

This has been the best linux directory explanation I've come across on youtube. Never knew the usr directory was system resources, and not user.

[Revenant]

This was a really awesome short tutorial! If I had seen this when I started using Linux my experience would have been much smoother to get going! You should think about doing a tutorial series on beginner and then with intermediate users in mind. I have learned a couple of things I did not know.

[vpxc]

The /usr prefix antedates the 'Unix System Resources' designation by many years, and it definitely was originally an abbreviaton for 'user'. In early versions of Unix, it's where user home directories existed (there was no /home). That's why it's still pronounced like the word 'user'.

[JanVaskoSG]

IT WORKED, THANKS I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOREVER, BUT NO TUTORIAL COULD EXPLAIN IT AS YOU DID

[mycoolgilbo]

switched to linux mint 3 years ago, lernt a lot from your videos thank you. found you from your windows10 debloat video. love your debloat script

[PilgrimFL]

Thank you so much Chris! I am so happy that I found your channel. I am about to jump into using Linux, having been a Windows user since the DOS days, and your step-by-step video is brilliant! I really appreciate that you're showing the Linux equivalent of Microsoft's command line structure.

[chrisamon]

I think you have talked me into trying it! Excited and can't wait!

[cosmosrenegade]

I really love how calm you are when explaining, and how you are very practical with the pros and cons

[dzotrlj]

Man, i just want an os i can game on thats not going to spy or record everything on my pc.