A Gentle Introduction To Linux (for Linus Tech Tips viewers)
Channel: DistroTube
Date: 2021-10-28

So a few weeks ago, Linus and Luke from Linus Media Group decided to do a Linux challenge where both would switch to Linux on their home computers, with a punishment for the one who switches back to Windows first.  Now, this is huge news for the Linux community because Linus Tech Tips is the biggest tech-related YouTube channel.  So here is a video covering some of the basics for those LTT viewers wanting to try Linux.

0:00 Intro
1:11 What is Linux?
3:08 Why Linux instead of Windows?
8:38 Which Linux distro should I choose?
15:03 How to try out Linux?
17:11 An installation of Lubuntu in VirtualBox
22:08 How do you install software on Linux?
25:00 Do you have to use the command line?
25:48 Where can I go to learn more about Linux?

REFERENCED:
► https://linuxmint.com/
► https://manjaro.org/
► https://lubuntu.me/

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