I'm three weeks into my Linux experience, and I cannot express how it feels to have a USEFUL command line. I've been a developer for a few years, a little bit of everything, but usually on Win32 (and a bit of the AS/400), so I knew about this whole scene, just wasn't a participant.
For the first time in years, I've stayed up 'till the odd hours of the morning, searching for the next command to learn (the next *nix ANYTHING to learn). While going through a pile of "how-to's", whenever I see a command I don't know, I go read the man page. A terminal window is going to be a permanent fixture on my desktop, now. In short, I feel alive...I feel like a "geek" again. I'm spreading the word at work...in short I feel, perhaps especially for developers of any level/language, that Linux can be a very enlightening experience, and the CLI is a huge part of that.
Peace.
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I'm three weeks into my Linux experience, and I cannot express how it feels to have a USEFUL command line. I've been a developer for a few years, a little bit of everything, but usually on Win32 (and a bit of the AS/400), so I knew about this whole scene, just wasn't a participant. For the first time in years, I've stayed up 'till the odd hours of the morning, searching for the next command to learn (the next *nix ANYTHING to learn). While going through a pile of "how-to's", whenever I see a command I don't know, I go read the man page. A terminal window is going to be a permanent fixture on my desktop, now. In short, I feel alive...I feel like a "geek" again. I'm spreading the word at work...in short I feel, perhaps especially for developers of any level/language, that Linux can be a very enlightening experience, and the CLI is a huge part of that. Peace.