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I disagree, the author gives the main reason: > You must understand why you damaged your system and why the fix you applied fixed it. Only GNU/Linux (in fact

I disagree, the author gives the main reason: > You must understand why you damaged your system and why the fix you applied fixed it. Only GNU/Linux (in fact any free software) gives you the possibility to fully understand your system. It allows you to drill down to any level required. Thriving for such understanding is a trait of hackers, but having the freedom to do so is beneficial for any software developer- at whom the article was targeted.

sva_ 2y ago
> It allows you to drill down to any level required Not really, sadly. There's a bunch of binary blobs for the CPU as well as other opaque firmwares in the hardware.
- nequo 2y ago
  Coreboot helps with it but not for all hardware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot
  - justaj 2y ago
    Or https://libreboot.org/ https://libreboot.org/ which is a CB "distro" with a leaner codebase.
ozim 2y ago
I would argue that nowadays most dev workloads don’t break operating system. Most of the time I would rather have devs spending time to learn their database engine for back end. For front end devs would rather that they spend time understanding how web browsers work. While I like to spend time getting to know OS details and running windows or Linux servers - for instance I do get a grasp of CSS and can use dev tools in browser, but I see how a front end developer fixes CSS issues in 5 mins that take me 30mins. We cannot expect everyone to know everything - but also I think we can expect some basic knowledge of different parts of stack.