Should an opensource dev know Linux

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Nice story, thanks for sharing!!


On 2022-04-27 17:31, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 21 Apr 2022 11:12:50 -0700
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm a PHP developer and always thought all opensource developers had
>> at least some knowledge of Linux.
>> 
>> Recently I watched a YouTube video that stated otherwise.  The
>> presenter said it is important to know Linux which will set one apart
>> from the crowd.
> 
> This tale of woe is marginally connected to your question...
> 
> My wife and I have triplets. Starting in maybe 2001, when they were
> eight years old, I gave them my business' handmedown computers, which
> ran Linux. So aside from an ancient DOS computer they shared at age 3,
> Linux was their first OS. Ubuntu, as I remember. They used it for
> school, social media, and fooling around.
> 
> Every once in a while they'd bitch that their Linux computers weren't
> compatible with this or that, I'd say "tough". With triplets, you watch
> every penny.
> 
> Just before they went to college, we bought each a laptop, which of
> course came with Windows, which they used through college (with each
> laptop breaking at an average of 1.5 years). Sometimes they'd bitch
> that their laptops were too slow, or ask me for admin advice, and I'd
> say "Install Linux". They said "no".
> 
> How people who grew up with Linux can permanently migrate away from it
> is beyond me, but now that they buy their own computers, well, their
> computers their rules. And I think their early work with Linux gave
> them the troubleshooting and configuration habits to work with
> something as complex and obfuscated as Windows.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
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