How to install Linux on any PC (EASILY)  

I mean hey, the school budget will no longer have to go towards Windows licenses.

@@samuelitooooofrr

​@@samuelitoooooim pretty sure my school pirates windows

I just bring my own dual boot laptop with windows and linux

​@ARandomDudeinU.Sif they are intel based you can install Linux too

That is true, but for just installing Linux once, doing it this way is less complicated and probably faster.

@@fabiandrinksmilk6205 it's not at all complicated to create a Ventoy drive. It's a matter of couple of clicks.

​@@fabiandrinksmilk6205ventoy takes 2 minutes to set up and is way easier if you don't like the os provided

Ventoy is awesome. Great suggestion.

IT engineer 🤔

Agreed. I hate short form content because I don't have enough time to mention important considerations such as this

Uhh things can be broken on the iso but not on the installation, plus installing pipewire is very simple

@@Tech2BDiscoveredyou should link short form to long form videos that you go in more depth with. I loved this explanation and would love a longer more detailed video.

​@@Tech2BDiscoveredI'm pretty sure you had time to mention that.

why not kubuntu

@@eeriemyxi because I don't like nor trust canonical

@@eeriemyxi because it's friendly arch. and arch is superior) Manjaro KDE gang

Manjaro is a great distro, but it can cause some beginners to be intimidated.

Ya, unfortunately they have done some things that I am not of fan of. However, Canonical is a far cry from the likes of Microsoft and Apple.

Yes, i used to use Etcher but i have been using ventoy for a while now

​@The Social Market Experiment i see only regular debian having issues and some it works in a weird Acer all in one

Mint is the best if you're coming across from Windows. Also Manjaro is run by incompetent folk who can't even keep SSL up to date. I wouldn't trust a company like that.

Pop os, garuda and ubuntu are the best for me Manjaro, zorin are very laggy

If you want more vanilla arch use endeavour instead

Yes you can. If you config the partitions to install Linux on the one you want.

Yes, you can certainly do that. When you get to the option where you can select whether you would like to install Zorin alongside Windows or erase everything and install Zorin OS, there is also an advanced option. Select and reformat the D partition, create necessary partitions for Zorin OS, and select the partition for Zorin to install on. There are tutorials available on RU-vid showing how to do this with Ubuntu, which has the same installation process.

In disagreement with the comment above mines, I do recommend anything based on Debian, even if it means you miss out on the newest desktop features, *because* it means they've been tested to be super stable. That means things will work and not just break on you. Even if many Linux things *can* be fixed, it may not be the easiest thing for beginners to even look up how to do, and would probably be overwhelming to many. My favorite recommendation for beginners is Linux Mint.

Yeah you just format it

Ventoy is goated

you can even have multiple on the same. i used to have windows and a Linux distro on one ssd and 4 other Linux distros on another

That's how I have my 2009 MacBook set up right now*, so if Apple with their proprietary way of doing things can do it, I assume most other PCs can do it as well. I'd give this a confident "yes", though I've never personally tried it with Windows. *I removed the DVD reader. It's just a SATA component, so I bought a hard drive caddy to be able to have two hard drives in a laptop. 😁

hard to install for a beginner

@@martinmatin6275 arch-install really easy rn i am on nixOS which is even harder

I just installed and configured this distro too😂

Ventoy goated

@@kirekocev2587 yeah i prefer YUMI Multi boot when coming tothings about multibooting rufus and baleena is more of 1 disc image boot

I like that idea, sounds like a lot of people are wondering!

@@Tech2BDiscovered Yeah its just that linux is a lil complicated for me

The best advice you can get is immersion. If you're dual booting try your best to mainly use your Linux boot, unless you have windows exclusive tasks ofcourse. It forces you to get familiar with your environment and if you end up struggling with a task it forces you to look it up and learn for next time! Have fun!

@@pyziz6823 tysm!

​@@Tech2BDiscoveredcan i install kali linux on a laptop that has amd cpu(& gpu)? i wanna buy a used laptop & r5 pro seems much better than i5/i7 8th gen...

where do you live? you can buy a 10-15 year old lenovo thinkpad or something. or any laptop after 2010 for like $50, just get a new SSD for it

@@0baakFPV The laptop was my Moms and it has value to me. "Just buy a new one" isn't an option. I have plenty of other computers, I just want to keep this one operational. Now, do you have an actual solution to the problem I originally described?

@@RANDOMNATION907 I see! are you sure you tried several ways to burning Linux on a cd/dvd and confirm that won’t work? Only thing else I can think of is pulling the hard drive and connecting it to another device with a slightly newer bios and installing it that way, but I am no expert by any means. That would be what I would try if I was in your situation

@@0baakFPV I only had the one blank CD, and I'm not going buy more for this project. I have thought about pulling the drive and using another device to install an OS onto it but, as of yet I haven't done so. I also discovered that the CPU/Chipset combo that I have only supports single channel ram, even tho there are two dimm slots. I've pretty much lost interest at this point. But, thank you for the suggestions.

Did you disable secure boot?

Once you get used to the quirks, it's usually a much better experience

I'm also gonna switch on it

Which linux is good for beginners friendly, I'm starting programming with 16gb ram with new laptop, how can i use linux ? Is deleting window effect on warranty

@@mk9-i2 i would imagine deleting windows would void warranty. anyways for the linux version i would recommend linux mint, ubuntu, or pop_os!. linux mint and ubuntu are the easiest to install. dont know about pop_os! though.

I also use Fedora, it's such a polished distro.

@@Miinui0 the bios on legacy shouldn't be an issue for running Linux I don't think. The secure boot one is more of an issue. If you can't disable secure boot, most Linux distro won't be able to boot. When using Windows 10 Pro, you may have bit locker drive encryption, which uses secure boot, so it can't be disabled to boot Windows. There are distro that do have secure boot support however, I think Fedora and Ubuntu but double check, where you won't need to disable secure boot. I can't remember the exact things to do, but it is possible to disable secure boot with Windows 10 Pro, but you need to get the bit locker key to do it, but you may need to do some research for this.

@@Miinui0 Oh, Secure boot isn't supported. But as that means it is disabled, you can just go ahead and install Linux. A good sign things work is if you can boot into the installer.

Another tip: Always select "UEFI:Your pendrive" ir the option shows up

Pop OS for instance.

I have disabled secure boot for months and my pc still boots on Insider edition.

Can you help me?

@@mloco16 what help bro

@@hgneo well I wanted to know how much storage does it take also what will I benefit from installing it

​@@mloco16 depends on distro but most of the time ISO is about 700MB - 1200MB and System around 4-8GB. You should be able to install it on anything tbh

Hey, glad I was able to entertain you!

As far as i understand most people are getting the iso off the official site and going straight into the download (most people) so wouldn't that be redundant?

Feel free to do this, but I personally don't think that it's necessary. If you are concerned about download interception, use a reliable encrypted VPN and download using the official torrent from the Zorin OS website. If you don't trust Zorin OS, use a different distro - there are plenty to choose from!

Linux Mint was distributing trojanized ISOs a few years ago when they were hacked. Checking the signature would have saved some people.

@@camwha5904how do you check signatures

Thanks!

Wha

How is it with modern gaming?

we all end up on arch😁

​@@_marvix_1088fr I used arch + kali cuz I was interested in Ethical Hacking .

@@_marvix_1088I am intimidated by arch from all the horror stories from like 10 years ago with the cli install and constant breaking. I really got to stop being silly and just try it out. I did try out Manjaro for a possible daily driver and it bricked every computer I put it on after a few days.

​@@CssDeveloperI also started learning Ubuntu and then i plan to switch it to Kali for Cybersecurity / pentesting. So how did it turn out ? Were you able to learn ethical hacking ?

I switched from Mint to Arch, really

You can look up a tree of them. I was researching changing distros left and right. And then finally I found a video, does your current distro do everything Linux in nature can do for you in it. Like can you install all the Linux software you want, etc. there’s things no Linux distro can do that windows can. Use like Debian or Ubuntu, see what else do I need. If not just stick with it

So, a distro is really just three things, and only one of them is something you need to think about very much. 1) The package manger. Package managers are how Linux installs and manages software. It's not too different from an appstore on your phone. Different distros will have different software repositories, but most of them will carry the same popular software packages. Your distro will also determine how fast of an upgrade schedule you're on. Something like Debian or Ubuntu will have major releases that come annually or so. You might not get software packages with the most recent updates, but the system will be very stable. Other distros are called "rolling release", like Suse or Arch. They tend toward bleeding edge updates, you get the newest stuff but may also get untested bugs. 2) The Desktop Environment. This determines the look and feel of your desktop, including what all the windows and menus look like and how they operate. There are several DE's out there, but the biggest ones in use are KDE and Gnome. 3) What software comes installed by default. Nothing complicated here, just whatever popular software the people managing the distro thought should be included in the install. Now, here are the reasons you don't have to get too worked up about which distro you choose. Except for the package manager, everything else in a distro is pretty much interchangeable. You can install and uninstall whatever software did or did not come with your distro. You can also change the Desktop Environment to whatever you'd like. Don't care for Gnome? Install KDE. You can make Ubuntu look like Zorin or whatever the heck else you'd want. Picking a distro is just a place to start.

There are 2 major distributions in linux, Arch and Debian. There are multiple different versions based on these which all look different like how mint and ubuntu are based on debian but are still different . The only difference between Debian and Arch is that they use different package managers i.e. They install stuff differently.

for now I'm settling with mint (cinnamon edge). it feels lackluster but it functions and I've accepted that for now I need windows for my gaming because my attempts on linux (for games over a decade old even) produced horrifically laggy input and ps2 graphics but its nice to not have windows for everything else I do

@@bleepblorbus that's great!

I agree. I have encountered quite a few weird bugs when trying to game. In my experience, everything else has been very stable - almost more stable than the official LTR of Ubuntu.

they said ALMOST any computer.

same

@@0baakFPV we are brothers 😄 which desktop environment do u use i use shell 🤔

@@sanikava I use zsh on one of my laptop and honestly forgot the other one but it’s running Garuda (arch based)

@@0baakFPV lol 😂 Garuda is indian os arch based with cool sweet themes

@@sanikava yea I like it for my gaming laptop

I recently started using Ventoy! It's truly an awesome piece of kit. However, as much as I really don't prefer the tool, etcher is still the simplest way to flash an ISO.

@@Tech2BDiscovered agree to disagree! hah Say, flash Ventoy, then you don't need to flash anything ever again, just drag-and-drop the ISO files. Win to me :D

Nearly everywhere Linux has better performance but less software compatibility and support

Cos the world is always trying to make things more, difficult. Good comment you make 👍

proton

Dude what

Arch isn't that hard to install especially now with archinstall being a thing

arch is not hard at all

@@miracledinner2244 even installing it manually is easy

+1 for Ventoy, though I'll warn that it's not as intuitive for new users as Etcher is, and the online documentation doesn't have good English. I also had to learn the hard way that it only works for me if I do "boot in grub2 mode". So I wouldn't recommend setting this up for new users or people who aren't tech-savvy But once you figure out how it works and how to get it to consistently work, I do recommend it, especially if Etcher doesn't work for you. (Etcher never worked on any of my computers 😅 Before I learned about Ventoy, I started with Rufus back when all I had was Windows, and even though it's not as pretty, it definitely works.) Even if you're not doing this for fun, I recommend taking advantage of storing multiple images on one flash drive to also have Rescuezilla on there, in case something goes wrong and you need to troubleshoot. And I *think* you can still leave space for everything else you use a flash drive for.

I wouldn’t recommend mint to someone switching from windows, it’s a good distro but the desktop environments aren’t really a good selling point

Only Archlinux or gentoo for beginnes!

​@@dmitry.gashkoI hate people like this^

yea u can get kali iso also

Mint and Zorin have Windows like GUIs, Ubuntu has a different UI, but technically on the inside they are all the same