From the course: Introduction to Linux
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Planning your system - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Linux
Planning your system
- [Instructor] As you move forward and start to work with Linux on your own or as you follow instructional materials, you'll need to make a few decisions that will guide the setup of your Linux environment. You'll need to decide what you want to accomplish with your Linux system. And once you know the answer to that, you'll need to use that information to decide which distro you'll use and where the Linux installation will run. It's a good idea to think about your choice in terms of whether you'll need or want a desktop environment or whether you just need command line access, either in a console or through a remote shell. If you need a desktop environment, as I mentioned before, I'd recommend starting out with Ubuntu Desktop Linux and seeing if that fits your needs. Other good choices for distribution to try first are Debian Desktop, Fedora Desktop, and Linux Mint. That is of course unless you already know what distro you need to work with or want to work with. If your team or…
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