Which Linux Distribution? | Understanding Linux Distros

Well, let's get going and start with the Debian branch of Linux.

Almost every popular distribution is based on Debian.

Now, I don't ever recommend a new person installing vanilla Debian, but Yvette, you know, I have no problems with because there's many customizations that Ubuntu has made that makes life a little bit easier for the new person out there.

um when you're looking through this uh just keep in mind most of these distributions are either depreciated or just complete trash so i don't recommend just distro hopping all the way through it i honestly have a big problem and make fun of many youtubers that say hey here's a hundred different distributions choose one No, that is not how you should be choosing Linux or your version of Linux.

So Debian is where you start.

It's almost a given.

And off of this branch, I kind of put a logo of Ubuntu right here in the middle.

And I'm going to zoom in on that a little.

This kind of gives you a good bearing of what you should expect when getting to Ubuntu.

Now, every other popular distribution is based on Ubuntu.

And in my eyes, all they are is just a different look.

There's not really a big functionality change between Ubuntu and many of these distributions.

so i'm going to just read off real fast some of these distributions that so many people recommend and use and to me it's just ubuntu with a little bit different of a skin because functionality wise they operate pretty much the same most the install commands are the exact same on both of these systems so ubuntu is your standard one you can look at videos and say hey that's kind of what i'm looking for as far as look And I've even made a video, I'll link up here in the top, that shows you how to change Ubuntu to look like Windows or OS X or pretty much anything you want it to look like.

It does like three big ones of those just so you get a good bearing and then you can customize a little bit from there.

But if you don't want to do that and you just want out of the box... look that's where these other distributions come in in my mind so I'm gonna just go through some of them Kubuntu it's like a KDE version so you can look at KDE Ubuntu there's Lubuntu which is like a lightweight Ubuntu it doesn't come with a lot of the nice aesthetics but it can work on a really old machine just fine there's kde neon which is like a newer version of kde that looks pretty snazzy there's peppermint and elementary which are just offshoots i don't recommend them but they're very very popular so that's there when i come into this i always recommend people go to this one which is linux mint It has a really good Windows vibe to it.

So if you're coming from Windows to the Linux world, Linux Mint's usually, I say, that's where you should start.

If you don't like Linux Mint, try Ubuntu.

If you want a different look and feel, it's just a little bit harder getting around when you're first coming to it.

But this is a great starting point.

And this is the Debian fork.

And what makes all these distros pretty much the same is they a lot of them use the same package manager, which is apt.

So when you see online, apt install, whatever package, you know, it could be.

VirtualBox or whatever it might be, it's just going to go out to the repository and install that program for you.

So when you see the APT command, you're almost always dealing with a Debian based system.

And most of those are universal for all these distributions.