<h1>Introduction</h1>
NASM (Netwide Assembler) is the most commonly used assembler in Linux environment. Many world class system software using assembly code are written in NASM. NASM provides a very logical yet strict syntax grammar to code in assembly.
<h1>Problems With Windows</h1>
While Windows uses MASM (Macro Assembler), which most people tell you to use at first, there are many problems associated with it:
<ul>
<li>Time taking and headache filled setup, as it might take you a lot of time to actually setup MASM in your PC.</li>
<li>Heavy amount of memory consumption in installation of dependencies, including an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) like Visual Studio which takes up to 10 GBs of space with required dependencies like Visual C++ installed. No need to mention the RAM consumption.</li>
<li>No transparency &amp; understanding behind setup, no doubt that most of us people just watch some online tutorial &amp; follow the steps without understanding what’s going behind the scenes. You can’t repair any dependency related issue until you don’t know its behind mechanism.</li>
<li>Struggle in finding a 64-bit assembler, no need to mention it as its a common issue. Most MASM assemblers are either of 16-bit or 32-bits.</li>
<li>And more…</li>
</ul>
<h1>Why Linux For Assembly?</h1>
<ul>
<li>Fast and easy setup, thanks to heroes who contributed in engineering the package manager.</li>
<li>Very low memory consumed, around 3 MBs! You won’t believe it until you don’t see it.</li>
<li>Write it anywhere, even Gedit (notepad of Linux). Its compilation at terminal that matters, unlike how automated compilation &amp; run has spoilt us in Windows.</li>
<li>Full transparency, as we do it from the base using terminal. There is no automating JSON file etc for handling our compilation, you have to do it yourself in Linux.</li>
<li>And many more…</li>
</ul>
<h1>Setting Up</h1>
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Make sure your internet has a stable connection.
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<h2>STEP 1:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Open terminal and check processor information by typing command given below.</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>uname -a
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>If it says x86-64, you are good to go!</li>
</ul>
<h2>STEP 2:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Install the NASM assembler entering the terminal command given below.</li>
</ul>
<pre><code># For Debian/Ubuntu based distributions
sudo apt install nasm

# For Fedora
sudo dnf install nasm

# For CentOS/RHEL
sudo yum install nasm

# For Arch
sudo pacman -S nasm
</code></pre>
That’s it. Took just 2 steps to get it done, now we will test writing code to confirm it is installed correctly.
<h1>Testing Sample Code</h1>
<h2>STEP 1:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Open any of your favorite code editor like Vim, Nano, Emacs or Sublime Text etc.</li>
</ul>
<h2>STEP 2:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Write this code as it is in the code editor, I will explain it later what the syntax means in another article.</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>section .data
 text db &quot;Hello, World!&quot;, 10

section .text
 global _start

_start:
 mov rax, 1
 mov rdi, 1
 mov rsi, text
 mov rdx, 14
 syscall

 mov rax, 60
 mov rdi, 0
 syscall
</code></pre>
<h2>STEP 3:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Save the code &amp; open terminal and traverse to the directory where you wrote the code.</li>
</ul>
<h2>STEP 4:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Type this command on terminal to compile object file of our <code>.asm</code> file (for now we saved it as <code>hello.asm</code>).</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>nasm -f elf64 -o hello.o hello.asm
</code></pre>
<h2>STEP 5:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Type this terminal command to compile executable file for out compiled object file.</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>ld hello.o -o hello
</code></pre>
<h2>STEP 6:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Now run the file with the following command.</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>./hello
</code></pre>
It must give the output:
<pre><code>Hello, World!
</code></pre>
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Incase some error is generated, go through the steps again &amp; make sure you didn’t made any mistake, which often occurs &amp; that’s totally fine.
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<h1>Conclusion</h1>
If you are a software engineer who is serious about having base level knowledge with anything they do, Linux is for you. Still if any problems occur after you followed the guide, you can leave a comment, I will go through it for sure. Thanks a lot!

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