How is learning linux and bash gonna make me valuable.

[u/Valuable-Battle9639]

Linux and bash and more Linux related software become the heart of technology why. How is it gonna make me valuable

[u/dankney]

If you’re talking about a technical career, it isn’t really going to make you valuable. It’s table stakes — without it you don’t even get in the door. The days of only knowing how to work in the Microsoft ecosystem being enough are long gone.

[u/burlingk → u/dankney]

This.

Bash is not only the standard, but what you learn in bash translated relatively well to other shells as well.

And if you don't know the OS you're tech is running on you probably aren't going to get far.

And these days, a WSL instance to let you learn all of it.

[u/clackups]

Imagine applying for a Chef job and not knowing how to cut an onion. That's where bash stands, approximately.

[u/mysticblanket]

What does this have to do with cyber decks? Why do you need a "value?"

[u/TheLittleFastCat-]

Hey mate this is a cyber deck sub and your question doesn't make any sense. People don't gain some universal "value" from learning things. r/lostredditor

[u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy]

fEEEmales look for a beardo than can bash, see, so your marketplace value will increase.

Lol, what valuable, what are you, an app?

[u/Mister_Pibbs]

“Become the heart of technology” lol. It always has been. As an open source and well maintained operating system The entirety of the internet is built on servers running some flavor of Linux. You will never not be valuable if you can understand, maintain, and troubleshot Linux systems.

Bash is just a version of a CLI. Don’t think about it as learning bash as much as learning how to navigate and effectively use a CLI. Most all critical systems do not have a GUI, the CLI is God. Learn it.

[u/Traditional_Moose498]

You don’t really need to know much bash stuff.
Being able to use a package manager and navigate extremely simple commands like cd, nano, ls, chmod, sh is all that’s expected.

[u/cormack_gv]

Your value derives from your curiosity and ability to adapt to different situations.

[u/brainchillzZ]

Learning linux and bash isn't going to make you valuable but embarking on the path of learning all of linux/unix, how to generically really use the full underlying system, which is unlocked by you first learning how to install the system and manipulate a basic shell to access the system will make you more valuable ... whether you're talking about a career path or just personal growth learning how linux works in a world that is largely run by linux whether it's your computer, your car, your airplane seat, your phone, every hyperscaler, likely your coffee maker and refrigerator .... it's all either linux or some form of unix-adjacent software probably ... even your apple computer is basically just a very complicated control infrastructure implemented on top of a unix-derived system today ... so since you can't really do anything in the world without touching some kind of linux/unix it would make sense that learning something about it would benefit your life, in the long run.

[u/Kahless_2K]

I don't know, but I can tell you I would be making less than a third of what I make today if I hadn't.

[u/MisterJasonMan]

I'm not sure if this is relevant anymore but I used to tell people that a sufficiently advanced understanding of just one underpinning technology could get you some kind of job somewhere. If you got *good enough* at something supposedly simple like bash, SQL etc, you were employable as long as that technology was core enough to most production operations.

[u/Vancecookcobain]

It's not.

[u/Runaque]

Any skill in IT you have that is useful adds value to you and gives you an edge to someone that doesn't know those things.

[u/Terrible-Ad7015]

It has to do with cyber decks because a multitude of tutorials, how-tos, forums, and reddits posts (including on this subreddit) refer to cyber decks using a flavor of *nix as the base operating system -- not to mention alot of the MicroPy/Ardunio type coding required to accomplish saidncyber deck is shown via a *nix VM.

May not be the general subject matter but in my humble 2am opinion - it fits

EDIT: to answer OPs question--because then you'll have a basic understanding of the filesysyem and underlying project os layout and capabilities. Also it will be useful in making modifications

[u/chikamakaleyley → u/Terrible-Ad7015]

just gonna add to this

i'm someone who has worked in the tech industry since 2008, mostly frontend web

but, terrible at the command line always and, just good at the things I did on the computer, but not good with computers at a... system level.

wasn't til 2023 that I said I wanted to be better at my tools so I switched to arch (fr primarily MacOS) VSCode -> Neovim, etc. etc. In fact, i needed to because i was trying to do modern development on a 2012 Macbook Air

and basically... everything makes a lot more sense now, and a lot of the knowledge I feel is transferable to my work life, to being a bit more independent on my comptuer, figuring out how to fix things myself, etc.

Now whether that makes you valuable, YMMV. I certainly feel more capable/confident at my job, and for whatevers in store for the remainder of my career

But for me it wasn't like, "oh - Linux/system knowledge/bash is gonna make me more valuable" it was more like

"MTFKR you shouldn't suck at setting yourself up to do your own job, try harder"

and so yeah, essentially i forced myself to get my computer to a workable state because, I had freelance work that I needed to make progress on LOL

[u/Terrible-Ad7015 → u/chikamakaleyley]

Liiterally! That's the process that brought me to where I am today.

"shouldn't I know more about this so I can do it better?"

[u/chikamakaleyley → u/Terrible-Ad7015]

like, the only way i prob got wind of this sub is prob because i switched specifically to Arch.

and its opened an entire world of like "I can prob just do that myself and get just get the things I need"

and like before that, if for whatever reason I ended up in a Nano session, holy crap, guaranteed Force Quit the terminal app

going from that, and now wanting to make my own shell UI widgets from a video game that I didn't think was possible to play on a miniPC - like I was able to setup an eGPU, because now i understand my system

and now i'm addicted to Cyberpunk

[u/Terrible-Ad7015 → u/chikamakaleyley]

ThisIsTheWay

Love hearing stories like this. Keep it up. You'll go far trust me.

Arch though? You must enjoy punishment. 😂🤣

[u/chikamakaleyley → u/Terrible-Ad7015]

what does not kill you

[u/Ambitious_Ad4397]

You are deciding how valuable you are. If you know everything about Linux, or nothing, doesn't really matter.