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Comparing distributions

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Comparing distributions

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- [Instructor] In this video, I'm going to compare, a couple of different Linux distributions. This includes Ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian and Gentoo. You're going to notice while they're all Linux, they all look and act just a little bit differently. The first one we want to look at is Ubuntu. And Ubuntu is going to come with the Unity desktop environment by default. This is a very graphically pleasing environment, and it's really nice and well laid out. Now Ubuntu is nice because it has a very graphical interface. For instance, you can click on those dots in the lower left corner, and you'll see all the programs that are installed, and you can then select them from there. Also, on the left side, you have the menu bar, and from there, you can click on the Files, and you'll be able to have a desktop file system, very similar to your Windows Explorer. Next, let's take a look at web browsing. You can see that we have Firefox in…

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