Welcome to Ubuntu! This is Daniel from TwinBytes with another video for you.
It's been a while. But we're going to be showing you the first of
several videos involving Linux Ubuntu. Linux is the alternative to Windows and
the Mac. It's been... Windows has been the majority of the market share for a long time.
Mac is nine percent currently at this time, market share, and Linux is a
way down at the bottom somewhere, but they are coming up and as product
support is becoming more widely available, we are getting a bit more
market share and more people starting to experiment with this.
So here's a video on how it looks and works,
so that if you're considering maybe switching over
to a Mac from a PC, you might want to look at Linux for a few reasons.
So we'll show you here.
When you first turn it on you got your desktop. Looks the same as a
windows desktop even, and you can have icons and shortcuts on there.
We've got a few program shortcuts and icons on the left side where you can find
applications and files and then shortcuts to programs. A software center where
you can actually download software and so on. Through the Dash Home it makes it
easy to just type in the name of the program that you're looking for or you
can search based on category and start going through this way to find the
programs that you're looking for. You can also search for files specifically, music,
and everything in general.
The folder structure is through your home folder
and this is where you'll see all your documents, downloads, music, and so on.
The menus at the top similar to a Mac where the menu up here at the top will
change depending on what the program is that you have open at that time.
So let's get into our... OH! Well before we get to the presentation software, there's your
other menu you shortcuts here depending...
This is a laptop so it's got a battery showing and the wireless and sound, calendar, and time,
account settings, and if you want to shut down the computer that's where that is
currently in this particular version of Ubuntu 11.10.
Let's go right into this presentation software I created for you guys; and we'll start the show!
This is equivalent to Microsoft PowerPoint which is very popular, but
it's using the OpenOffice version or not OpenOffice, that's a name of the
software which is also open source but this is Libra, and you wouldn't know the
difference if I didn't tell you probably. Anyway the Ubuntu desktop 11.10
that we're using similar to the mac with the menus as I just mentioned, and it's
really good if this is for personal use that you're looking at getting into
Ubuntu or Linux of any version of Linux, there are many versions of Linux.
Ubuntu may be a very good alternative for you guys. If you're using this
for business use you might not want to jump on it too quickly. You're going to
want to research the programs that you're wanting to run on it and make
sure that they're compatible. So that's some of the things with the
downfalls great for personal, but for as far as business goes, it's not
compatible with all the programs yet. Although with cloud-based computing
becoming more and more popular, it's not going to be as much of an issue, because
all you need is access to the Internet which is very easy, and you've got
everything you need. So eventually switching to Ubuntu for business won't
be an issue either. Not as many technicians available for support on
this yet. As you can probably guess because windows is majority, you see all
kinds of people and kids working out of their basement that
they can support windows. Even less people can support Mac because they are
not as many market share and then even less again for Linux.
You would have to get used to
some software that is the new compatible alternative to windows
based software, and it's basically going to be the same difference if you were
considering switching to a Mac. You got to learn their stuff anyway. So if you go
to Linux then you can make use of some of benefits which we will get into now.
The operating system is FREE that's the biggest thing right there. If you were to
purchase Windows by itself, it's about $150. Mac they've
got their various versions of their OS as well and with the Linux it is FREE!
and will always be FREE. If you want to find out why, you can read more about it on
their website. I'll show you later. The operating system can run on Windows
type hardware; which means you've got more variety to choose from, and it's a
whole lot cheaper, because it can be from any manufacturer of hardware. Not like
the Mac where you have to use Apple hardware to run the Apple operating
system and everything's Apple. So you can use anything you want and because of its
structure it's built on Unix, which is what Apple is built on, and that was the
initial computers that we have worked with, when I was growing up even, was Ubuntu..
...or was UNIX, not Ubuntu...Unix! which is where they come up with Linux now.
It's a Windows looking GUI interface for Unix. So it's a lot more secure than,
stable than, what the windows is based on the old DOS system.
Tons of FREE software available, easy to access, and you can network with Windows
computers. So file sharing, printer sharing, not as big of an issue. Although
there may be some tweaking and that involved. You can dual boot between
Windows and Linux so if you want to have Windows in your back pocket without
having another computer on standby, you can set it up so when you turn
the computer on it gives you two choices; do you want to boot up into Linux or do
you want to boot up into windows. You can also run Windows inside of Linux.
So if there are certain programs that just only run in windows instead of dual
booting, and you have to reboot, shut down Linux, turn it back on again, to go into
Windows, just to run that program. You can run a virtual windows within the Linux,
and then run that software inside the virtual windows. So you can still get
access to that program using the virtual windows, without having to shut down your
Linux computer and closing all the other programs and files you have open inside
of Linux. So that's pretty much the Pros and Cons of Ubuntu here, and I
showed you the menu structures here, and getting online, everything is the
Internet is Internet, email can be web-based so you get on there.
Everything else is virtually web-based now , so all you need is access to the internet
and you can do everything.
There's a lot of stuff that you're going to want to run
on the computer, and for every program that's out there, there's just about a
couple of alternatives that are free that you can download and that will work
inside of Linux. You can check out Linux.com here and read a lot more about
Linux. Or go straight to Ubuntu.com and find out about Ubuntu, which is
one of many versions of Linux available on the market.
My name is Daniel with TwinBytes
Find out more about me check out www.twinbytes.ca and I'll be back
again later with some more on Ubuntu. Alright! Thanks a lot guys take care.
See you later.