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 March 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
