A Beginner's Introduction to Linux | Linux Today

A Beginner’s Introduction to Linux

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Steve Emms
Nov 18, 2017

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux. You’ll embrace a plethora of free open source software, with more choices than you could possibly imagine. There are hundreds of actively-maintained Linux distributions, dozens of different desktop environments, and tens of thousands of open source applications covering the whole gamut: games, multimedia and graphics tools, internet apps, utilities, development environments, and much more.

This choice can be bamboozling to the newcomer. So we’ve produced four videos which offer a gentle introduction to the new world.

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Steve Emms

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