Even though the vast majority of videos in this series are devoted to working with the Linux server, in fact, the certification we're working towards is called Server Professional. A Linux admin must also know how to build and manage graphic-based interfaces so users will be able to get much of their daily work done.

This rather brief course will focus on the display managers and graphic desktop environments that make all that possible.

We'll explore how to make sure that the hardware peripherals you'd like to work with are actually compatible with Linux, and if they are, how to get even non-mainstream hardware configurations working properly with your system. We'll also demonstrate the use of some particularly useful diagnostic tools for displaying hardware profile information and for controlling remote graphic login sessions. We'll learn about display managers, what they do, and how we can get them do it, and then particularly LightDM display manager, which the latest LPIC exam released considers the most important in its class. In the System Accessibility lecture, we'll learn about the Linux screen, keyboard, and mouse adaptation utilities meant to improve the computing experiences for users with partially or fully impaired vision, hearing, or movement. Finally, we'll have some fun building a graphic user interface on top of a virtual server running on an Amazon Web Services EC2 Instance.