A Gentle Introduction To Linux (for Linus Tech Tips viewers)

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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