Re:Why don't more people use Linux?
by bigfatkitten on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @03:54AM
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His argument is especially nonsensical when pointing the finger at software developers.
Writing web apps that run in Linux containers on some cloud provider somewhere teaches you very little about the fundamentals of how computers work. For the most part, it doesn't even teach you much about how Linux works. The developer is so far abstracted from the hardware at that point that the OS doesn't really matter.
>Thus, it serves as a dojo for understanding computers better.
I have to disagree here. Using Linux doesn't mean you "understand" computers better. It just means you understand linux better. Every operating system abstracts the hardware in its own way. They are opinionated in how they do this with some shared fundamentals. Being extremely comfortable in linux means you are comfortable in how linux abstracts the hardware. That's all.
I am not trying to discredit linux as an OS here. Just not a fan of the elitist mentality that if you are not a linux user, then you don't know computers.