WHY Every Aspiring Developer SHOULD Learn LINUX #skillfoundry #developer #linux #linuxskills

What does it actually mean to learn Linux, or when can I say I learned it?

I agree wholeheartedly that everyone needs to learn Linux as aspiring developers, but I also see it as an unfurtunate consequence of server infrastracture having poor or unstable abstraction.

Many programming languages on the other hand have finally reached a point of maturity where you don't need to understand machine code, pointers and hardware to be a good developer. Certainly it is useful to know, but the keyword here is you don't "need" to understand the whole stack.

Really 95% of all software should be possible to install through wizards, but somehow I still need to understand how to create a postgres user, append my path variables, allocate more RAM for my java application, start Eclipse with some paremeters which can only be set in the terminal, invalidate Intellijs cache, find 30 extensions for VSCode and configure them in json files for it to be an actual dev environment rather than a plain text editor, dealing with bootloader, disk partitioning and mounting and also just managing drivers. The configurability over availability and standardisation just gets worse and worse the more you learn about computers.

Just tell me why it is easier to overclock a single core beyond all other cores on my computer than it is to install Python.

Fr! Been thinking about installing Linux in an old laptop (2010 or so) for a while when i manage to repair it 😄

Now we're talkin! 😀