From here, you can change
your system settings like your screensaver,
resolution, hardware settings and more.
Let's go back to our desktop and
select this icon here for files.
This opens up a window so we can view our files.
You can see the different files and folders here.
If I click on computer,
I'm taken to the main directory of my system.
We're going to get to this in depth in a later course.
For now, I'm just going to head back to my desktop.
Now, let's do the exact same thing we
did with our Windows machine and create a file.
This time, let's just use commands in the shell.
Because we're a GUI,
we don't have a program called
bash that we run our commands in.
Instead we open up the search utility
here and search for an application called Terminal.
When you open up the Terminal,
you will see your username and add symbol,
the host name, colon,
Tilda, and then slash desktop as your command prompt.
This is used to show who's running the command.
This will be more important in
another course as you switch users.
The last portion of the prompt
shows you where you are on the computer,
we'll learn more about this in a later lesson 2.
But you can see that we're currently in our desktop.
You can verify that we're using
the Bash shell with a simple command,
echo, dollar sign shell.
The echo command just prints
out texts options to the display.
In this case, the argument dollar sign shell is
the current shell/ bin/bash or Bash.
You could even do echo hello.
It will display hello, which isn't as useful.
Let's create a file in our shell.
Could you use the touch command?
Touch my super cool file.
Here you can see it made a file on our desktop.
There are many different commands you can use to make
a file with the touch command is one of the simpler ones.
Right now, it might be hard to
understand why you have to memorize
Linux shell commands when
it's easier to use a Windows GUI.
If you'll be working with any Linux machines,
it's essential that you know these commands.