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Installing MX Linux VM on a Chromebook
Aug 22, 2020
We've had a lot of requests for a walkthrough of installing a Linux distro on Chrome OS. So, we decided to go with the most popular distro out there. MX Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a medium footprint and a user-friendly interface. Installing it on a compatible Chromebook is simple and the OS works quite well inside the VM. See below for download links and terminal commands.
MX Linux download - https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-linux/
Install Virtual Machine Manager on your Chromebook(run this command in your Linux terminal) -
sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system bridge-utils virtinst libvirt-daemon virt-manager -y
Note: you will need to check your Linux kernel version in the Linux container. You will need to have kernel 4.19 or higher for this to work properly.
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hey what's up everybody today we are
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talking linux apps and i don't mean
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linux apps that come
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on your chromebook we're going to look
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at installing a full distribution of
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linux a recent update to the container
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on chrome os
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has allowed some devices to leverage
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virtual machines and cue
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emu and stuff so we're going to take a
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look at exactly how to do that
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so let's dive right in
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[Music]
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alright guys let's get started all right
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for starters you're obviously going to
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need a chromebook that supports linux
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apps uh we'll have a link down on the
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bottom to show you a list of devices
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that are
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compatible uh if you just want to check
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real quick all you have to do is go to
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your chrome os
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settings and on the left side there
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should be a thing that says linux beta
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if it's there you have linux apps no
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problem
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we're going to go ahead and turn that on
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click next
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now under here you're going to see disk
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size you're going to need to set that to
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at least
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25 to 30 gigs just to make
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room for the linux distribution that
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we're going to use and then any other
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apps that you may want to
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want to install your username you can
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set it to whatever you want so
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we'll do chrome unboxed here click
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install
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and that's going to take just a minute
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for linux to set up and then once it's
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done
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we're going to start installing the
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pieces that we're going to need to use
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to run
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the actual linux distribution we're
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going to do
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mx linux today we've done this a few
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times here in the office we've done
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elementary os
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popos that did manjaro the other day
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distro watch rates mx linux as the
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number one linux
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distribution on the market it's debian
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based so it should work really well with
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chrome west because that's the same
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thing that's running in the container
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and once we get this installed you can
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actually tinker around with it and just
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find
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iso files of whatever distro you want
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and try it out to see if it works
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so now that our terminals up and running
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we're going to run a couple of commands
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just to make sure
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everything is up to date so we'll do
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sudo apt update
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that's going to let us know if that
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there are any upgrades available and
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there are so you'll do sudo apt
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up grade and then if you do a dash
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y it will automatically click yes for
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you or you can just hit enter and click
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yes when it gets there
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that's going to take just another minute
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and then we will move on to the next
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step
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if you haven't checked it out already
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there's multiple articles on the website
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that list how to do this and then each
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one it shows the commands on how to
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install the virtual machine manager
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and if you feel like you're worried
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about breaking something
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don't worry about it the linux container
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is separate from chrome os
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and if something doesn't work you can
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literally turn off linux delete all of
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the files and start over from scratch
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like it never happened so this is going
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to take another minute or so to finish
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and then
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once it's done we'll move on to
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installing the virtual machine manager
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all right all our updating is done is
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now now we can move on to the next step
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once this is finished and your terminal
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is installed you'll have a new folder in
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your file manager and it just says linux
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files and that's exactly what it is
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these are files that are created by
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linux applications and if you need to
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access other files on your device
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you can drag them directly into that
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folder
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or you can give access to your downloads
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folder when we're doing installations
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like this i like to put my files in the
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linux folder that way there's no
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path conflicts or anything like that so
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today we're going to install
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mx linux so you can find the uh the
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current stable version on sourceforge
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we'll put a link down in the description
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to
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show you how to grab that all right so
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you're going to download that it's going
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to take a couple minutes because this is
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an iso image so it's almost two gigs
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it's a
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operating system compressed into an
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image so it's going to go to your
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downloads folder
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drag that over to your linux folder and
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give that a minute to transfer over and
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while that's doing that let's go ahead
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and get
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our installation of our virtual machine
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manager started
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it's going to install a few different
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files this works off qemu
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and kbm it's nested virtual machines and
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all that stuff
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virtual machine manager is actually the
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application the user interface we're
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going to use
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to install and run the image
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for linux desktop now how this works
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it's actually taken a portion of your
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hard drive
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and it's going to dedicate that for the
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linux distribution so you're actually
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going to have a full version of linux
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running
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on a portion of your hard drive the
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virtual machine manager
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allows chrome os to look at
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that distribution so it's treating it
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like an off-site
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host but it's just running here on your
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device so
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think about remote desktops and things
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like that very similar situation it's
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just the other operating system happens
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to be running on the same machine that
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you're using
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so we can install all of the files that
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we need in one fell swoop and i've got
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the command in here it'll be in the
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article we'll have it down in the
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comments below you're going to open your
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linux terminal
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up and you're going to copy and paste
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this command
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into your terminal and hit enter and
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that is going to install
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everything that we need to run the
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virtual machine manager alright guys our
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installation is done and you should have
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a virtual machine manager
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in your app door if you can't find it uh
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scroll down until you see a folder that
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says linux files any of your linux
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applications or files are going to be
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in there i have my pin to the shelf here
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just so i know where it's at
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so what we're going to do is we're going
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to create a new virtual machine now the
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first time you do this you may get an
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error saying there's no connection
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available to fix that just go to
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file add connection and change this from
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qemu
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kvm to qemu kvm user session and click
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connect
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that will create your local user session
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for you we already have one started here
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so we're going to
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click this icon to create a new virtual
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machine
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we're going to do local install media
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because we're using a local iso image
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go next and go to browse and then browse
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local
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and if you moved your mx linux or
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whatever iso you're using over to your
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linux folder it should show up right
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there
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double click that now unless it's a
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major
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distro that's recognized in here it's
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not going to detect
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that distribution automatically so
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you're going to deselect automatically
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detect
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and then just start typing generic and
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we're going to use generic default
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it should work for pretty much any linux
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distribution you use
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go ahead and click forward now depending
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on your device
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you're going to want to allot as much
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ram and cpu as you
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can afford to let go of this is an i7
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with 16 gigs so we're going to go ahead
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and give it
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quite a bit of memory and then
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says eight cores which is kind of cool
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because in the past when i've done this
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it only let me do four cores because
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hyper threading doesn't work
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on crostini and all that but whatever so
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it's going to let me use eight cores so
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that's what i'm going to use
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so we'll click forward and then it's
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going to ask you to a lot in amount of
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disk space you'll see you have 33 gigs
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available because that's based on the
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amount we set when we set up linux
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so i'm going to go ahead and give it 25
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gigs then
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click forward and you can leave all this
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as it is and then click finish
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now the virtual machine is going to fire
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up and it's going to start installing mx
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linux on that partition that we created
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this is going to take a few minutes but
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if you're familiar with linux
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distributions you'll know what to do
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it's going to walk you through the the
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installation process just like it would
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with
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windows mac or any other linux distro
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out there
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so we will just go ahead and select
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install
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and we're going to go through the
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installation process all right so here
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we are guys this is a really cool thing
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about iso images is
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most of them will actually run directly
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from the image so instead of actually
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installing it on bare metal on your
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device
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it's running from that image so you can
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kind of poke around and see what you
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think about it that way if you decide
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mx linux isn't the distro for you you
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can just delete the virtual machine
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and start over with a different
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different distribution if you decide you
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like it you can actually
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most of these distributions the live
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image will have an installer button on
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the desktop like this right here
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you'll just click that it'll go through
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the actual bare metal installation of it
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you'll get your keyboard set up your
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username and all that stuff
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and then you'll have a dual booting
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device
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per se right there in your hands and you
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can
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change and swap up any linux
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distribution you want
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we've actually installed windows 10 on
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one of these and it works really well
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you don't have to worry about network
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connectivity um the link the virtual
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machine inherits uh the internet from
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chrome os
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uh you are going to run into some issues
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when you're trying to share files with
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chrome os and things of that nature so
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just
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think of this as a completely separate
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operating system they are not
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they're not working in tangent with each
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other if you just want to try out linux
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or you just need linux on a device for
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whatever reason
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most of these pre-built distros come
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with stores built in so you can go in
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there and install the chromium browser
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so
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you can have more of a native chrome os
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feel if you want
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but that's it guys you can install this
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distro or one of
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dozens if you want we'll be tinkering
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some more over the next few weeks to see
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what else we can try out and see which
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one works best
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if you guys have any suggestions or
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there's something you'd like to see drop
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a comment below or shoot us an email
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because i'd love to give it a try
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