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content_type: workshop
title: 'Introduction to Linux: Live demo'
todo:
- 'these all seem bad in different ways: Some aren''t in depth, some go into too much
  detail on irrelevent things. Signal to noise ratio matters'
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dhj1-p9Ufl4ilSy_Nu8sw-kuNVWkSvhp0dn5KGo9TyY
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VKLYGckrf6GVlZ4CkK9t1O6rA_OkAkt9XQ5TmHynKXg/  edit#slide=id.gc6f889893_0_0
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VKLYGckrf6GVlZ4CkK9t1O6rA_OkAkt9XQ5TmHynKXg/  edit#slide=id.gc6f889893_0_0
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JDHBfcISYGLKdcCF6MrRXs9fzIdkyb8YngE8EZjhI48/edit#slide=id.p
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1E5ef9FtcQExlMVeKIhXHsG59w78GMIz_Q3zdWBWUdac/edit#slide=id.p
---

Linux Ubuntu or Mint will be demonstrated to the recruits. Demonstrate:

- Command line navigation versus gui based navigation
- basic command-line commands, man and --help
- how to install software, and why it's cool
- use of sudo (and why o be careful about that)
- creating a file in the command line and visually seeing it come up in the gui
- how to set up keyboard shortcuts
- launching Python and Node from the command line

## Prerequisites for speaker

Whoever is doing ths workshop should be familiar with th excercises given to recruits. Questions will come up, you should be able to answer them.

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