Neues Linux-Buch von Chris Titus: Praxishandbuch statt Tierliste

All right. Today I have released a book on Amazon. You can actually go buy it and get a physical copy. I'm also going to show you the digital version. Uh you can also get like eub if you want just to support me and just download an electronic version of this on cttstore.com or on Kindle. Now having said that I wanted to write a practical desktop guide, something that I wish I had when I started my Linux journey. I think it would help me so much just starting off. Now, everything here is written on the linuxbook.com and I publish it for free. So, uh you know, you don't necessarily have to go buy this. Uh cool features I've kind of baked into this book itself like at the end of each chapter and stuff. I like to kind of put notebook lines. I I really wrote this so you could kind of as you read make notes yourself, highlight important things and then write things you discover about that. And if you want, you can even comment on this video or uh directly on the git repository for the links book if let's say I'm missing something and you be like, "Oh, it would be nice if this was ad." Because the thing about technical novels and you you can't even go into Barnes & Noble or any bookstore these days and get most technical novels like uh the last technical novel I bought was Modern Vim by Drew Neil. It was a good book and it was well written. But the problem was a lot of it, more probably more than half of this if not more is now out of date because it was written for Vim 8 and the very early versions of Neoim. Heck, I think it was like Neoim 0.5, which Neoim's on like uh 0.12 or 0.12 now instead of five. So quite a big difference there. And I wanted to reiterate on the paper book I actually had bunch of different copies like uh just to get kind of the formatting everything down as I wanted to self-publish. So uh the big thing here is I wanted to walk through the structure what to expect out of this book because I've been working on it roughly for 6 years. So I was trying to think of uh like what did I want to know when I started Linux what the different types of distributions are not like hey here's a hund different distributions let me tell you about all the nuance of each one because in my book they all fall into three buckets Debian based distributions Red Hat distributions and arch distributions now there's a lot more than that but for a new user this is what you need to know then it kind of breaks down differences between stable and rolling releases when to choose What? So, it's not just like, "Hey, Arch is the best. Just use Arch." Well, Arch is great for someone that's on their computer every single day and constantly updating, but it's terrible for like a set and forget type of Linux server that might not even be logged into, you know, maybe once a month. So, it depends on what your use case is. And that might be a distribution. So, it's not like, hey, always install this one distribution. It just takes care of everything. It kind of gives you the nuance that goes with distributions. That's why I kind of hate tier list and I always kind of make fun of them or kind of tongue and cheek and I'm just like Debbie and Arch are the best, which they are, but um that's kind of uh a lot of things are just configuration in in a distribution. It kind of goes into it. I wish someone told me that when I started. So that's what that this chapter is. And then I kind of break down all the different things that makes up a distribution. So then you know, hey, on this one distribution, I just want to change the boot loader because I don't really like the boot loader. So I'm going to switch from Grub to uh Lemonade, or I'm going to switch from uh Xorg to Wayand or I'm going to switch from a different desktop environment because I don't like KD and I like Gnome, or I like Gnome and I don't like, you know, there's so much nuance to this. I want to kind of show you what makes up a distribution. What choices are people making? So then when you find something you don't like, you can go, I'm just going to throw that in the trash bin and then I'm going to pick something else from the shelf, the the selection of spices, and it kind of walks through the different package managers, all the things that make up your Linux distribution. And then I kind of wanted to break down that even further. So in those selections, I mean, it's kind of a rabbit hole when it comes to Linux. What types of ones? So I I started with uh the three big boot loaders that are used in Linux. There's actually more than this, you know, but I mean, this book would be a thousand pages long and full of really obscure niche things that I didn't really think was applicable for new users. So, I stuck to the big mainline things that most new users should stick to. So, Scrub, SystemD, and Lemon A. I kind of go over just how to prep for installing Linux. This is kind of a big thing when it comes to the preparation of Linux. um how much space you should have, have a second drive, how to create a bootable USB. It walks through that. Also throughout here, I've made over a thousand videos on my YouTube channel, and I leave links for companion resources, but also I leave a lot of links for uh specific videos that I've done on that specific subject matter because I know for like bootloaders, I've done quite a few videos on and here's all my Grub videos at a simple thing. So, like if let's say you wanted to know how to repair Linux from a boot failure, it would just immediately go into that video. So, it's a good reference for all my Linux content as well. So, I left this in on the paperback book. It'll be a little bit strange because I I'll go to the same page, kind of show you what that looks like. So, on that one, you really can't see it, but it has the same thing, but I I put the hard link right below it. And I had made little short links for everything. So, it's like links.linxbook.com. linxbook.com/repair grub boot fail. So kind of a memorable link to go with each one for the paperback version. And then terminal, I go in pretty extensive here because there's a lot of like troubleshooting steps and things that I think everyone should know about Linux. So when bad things do happen to you, because eventually something's going to break or something's going to change, you're like, "How do I fix or troubleshoot this?" has a whole troubleshooting chapter. Essentially, it's a subchapter actually. the terminal. The terminal makes up for about a 100 pages of this 230 page book. Uh, so it's it's quite a bit. Uh, but I wanted to leave like all these little short commands so you can just go bookmark it and go, okay, yeah, uh, to just check boot logs, I'm going to go journalctl-b boot-no-pager. it's going to give me all those or I just need the priority logs or failed services log or hey uh failed service name and then the pager if I want to just get logs referencing that specific service that might be failing. So like it gives a breakdown of how to actually see what's wrong with your system. And in Windows it's kind of like a very similar fashion. It has the event viewer and all those things and it when you pull up event viewer it's kind of overwhelming for a Windows user. That's a lot how Journal Ctl is for a Linux user. It's just not as uh well documented. There's not like a guey to really kind of show you this whole thing. So, I wanted to kind of have something for a user uh any Linux user. This would be great for a veteran user. And I find myself often referencing my own work, but also I kind of wanted to go over alternatives and Linux uh programs as well. Uh I have a entire chapter kind of like listing them out and it kind of goes over like all the different types of uh software just the main ones and then I have a link to something if you need an extensive list for alternatives but like office and productivity. What does that look like? Libre Office, Only Office, Nextcloud's kind of like the big ones for office software. Uh, multimedia, you got all these. And I kind of wanted to break all that out to give you, hey, what should I go to? Because sometimes when you come in from Windows, you're going to want to use like Adobe or something like that, but you can't. What does Linux offer? And then you have like a good list to go to. And if you needed more than that, I think I have a little resource here. Awesome Linux software. Here you can see an very very extensive one. Even some loces for like Arabic, China, Chinese, French, Spanish, all that right here. You can go in into each one and go, okay, what what all do we have for like education? You can see, wow, that is a ton of software. And then I kind of go into like setting up the entire Linux environment. uh decisions like what you should be thinking of, hey, should I go XOR or Wayland or going almost completely from scratch, what would this look like? And give you just a basic overview of each one. And then I kind of say, here's my perfect Linux. What is it? And it's different for everybody. That's the thing most people don't tell you about Linux is uh your version of Linux, your perfect Linux is different from my perfect Linux. So, it's really important to understand that. I know in the Linux community, everyone like like kind of like likes tries to stab each other and go, "Mine's the best." Well, it's the best for you, but my perfect Linux is different. And that's what I kind of want to say. It's it's very individual uh personal preference type of thing. And with this, I wanted to give a framework to kind of make your Linux journey a good starting one and also to kind of open up your eyes and know what you don't know and know what paths to go down. because if you just kind of scattershot it like a lot of people do in Draw Hop, you're just going to end up going back to Mac or Windows and and just not have a great experience. So, to alleviate some of that, I I did my best to make the first edition of this. I'm going to continually update this and then I'll update uh this, probably make a second edition next year. Every year, I'll probably try to reiterate, make this as good of possible based on your guys' feedback. So, if you do uh want to just go to linxbook.com, check it out, give me feedback and say, "Hey, you're missing this." I would be like, "Okay, cool. I'll add that." Or um unless you're saying, "Hey, do a Gento book. I'm not doing Gento Slackware." None of that. No, no, neck beard, you stay away. You get out. This is for new users. So, uh, but but yeah, I I really just wanted to make a book to help new users out to get a good basis, a good foundation that you can build on and then explore and learn new things. Uh, and let me know your guys' thoughts down below. And I really appreciate all the support. I'll leave the Amazon link for the actual physical copy or if you want to go to cttstore.com and get a digital one, that's up to you. I really do appreciate all that. I did put a lot of time and effort making this possible. So, thank you guys. I appreciate you.