我的學習手記 A technical geek blog: Elementary OS

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Elementary OS

A fast and open replacement for Windows and OS X - https://elementary.io/

You did not need many Linux skill to use this OS. The best of the best Linux desktop OS which is I seen. And also, you will able to use this OS to do most of your daily work such as browsing, email, IM, word processing and so on….

There are some steps of the installation:

Step 1: Boot from the installation DVD and you will see there are two options:

“Try elementary” and “Install elementary”

Step 2: Connect to network (It can be wireless and wired)

I use wired network to do the setup.

The first impression of me this OS is support WPA2-Enterprise (PEAP-MSCHAPv2) on wireless. (I setup it after I install the OS)

Step 3: Select “Download updates while installing” (Optional)

Step 4: My installation type is “Erase disk and install elementary” since it is old machine without any data need to keep.

(Please make a full backup of your machine if you want to keep any data or OS)

Step 5: Select Keyboard layout

Step 6: Enter your name, computer name, password… then installation start and wait for it complete.

When the installation complete, there are few software suggest to install.

First of all, go to check any update of the OS.

Step 1: Go to Application (the upper left-hand corner), then select “All settings”, click “Check for updates”

When you open the built-in browser “Midori” to access a website there are some component missing, it will pop up and guide you to install. (Very easy)

And also secure, it will required you to enter password for the installation.

The first software I would like to recommend you to install on this OS is “Google Chrome” already the built-in browser is very good, but if you need flash and also using many web service (Google apps, Microsoft outlook.com, onedrive….), you better using Chrome.

Just go to download package for (Debian/Ubuntu)