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I have been saying this at work for years, of course I am ignored :)

• Contusion3532 2y ago
  More job opportunities and pay for us then :)
  • dgfitz 2y ago
    What I wouldn’t give to find a remote, linux-heavy engineering job right now.
    • necovek 2y ago
      Canonical?
      • dgfitz 2y ago
        Unfortunately I’ve read more than I wish I had about interviewing at canonical. Not interested. Wish them the best.
        • endejerv 2y ago
          can you share what you read? was tempted to apply
          • dgfitz 2y ago
            Sure thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37059857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37059857
    • dusanh 2y ago
      There is also Red Hat and SUSE. And I am pretty sure smaller companies like that exist too. I started my career in just one like that!
• cuanim 2y ago
  How do you define "learning linux" though? Just learning vim and general unix tools?
  • dgfitz 2y ago
    I think that would be a great foray, yes. If you understand how to poke around the filesystem (cd, ls), manipulate the filesystem (cp, mv, rm, mkdir), how to search (find, grep), and how to edit and save a file (vi/vim {yes there are a plethora of linux text editors, vi is ubiquitous, which is the only reason I learned it}) you’re in really great shape. The best part is, you can learn this subset of tools in a day, a week at worst.
    • lycopodiopsida 2y ago
      There is nothing linux-specific in this list, you describe learning UNIX and could do it on any *BSD, including macOS. I would agree that knowing you way around unix is very helpful, having some specific linux knowledge is worth very little if your job does not consist of managing linux machines. And even then you will require a lot of distro-specific knowledge.