Linux For Beginners

April 26, 2016

Dualboot Linux and Windows

Dualboot Linux and Windows

Reinstall usually keeps personal files

Advantages of Linux

I More secureI Package manager

I Software installation is easy, fast and secureI Keeps all software up to date

I Faster, uses less resources

I Very customizable

I Better development environment

I Gratis

I Only does what you tell it to do

Windows Bullshit

Xfce

I Light & low resource usage

I Simple

I Few to no effects

KDEI Visually very fancyI Relatively high resource usage

GNOME

I Somewhere in the middle

UnityI Default for Ubuntu

Many more..

Linux Distrubutions (Distro)

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Filesystem: Windows

I Drive letters

Filesystem: Unix

I Mount points