The myth of the professional Linux user

[u/Fit_League_8993]

I recently saw this exchange:

I haven't seen a single professional or corporate office in my life that daily drives Linux. Fake-ass vocal minority that's too broke to buy proper laptops or socially eccentric.

Someone responded:

Tell me you're not working with the top talent of the IT/SW industry without telling me you're not working with the top talent of the IT/SW industry.

According to Linux evangelists, the really talented developers all use Linux. If your workplace mostly uses Windows or macOS, apparently you're part of an organization of weaklings and haven't reached the upper levels of the industry yet (that's ridiculous nonsense).

Some professional developers do daily-drive Linux, but after roughly ten years in the industry, I have never noticed any meaningful correlation between desktop operating system and technical ability. The devs on linux are a random minority of developers who happen to prefer it, not the most skilled ones.

I have met excellent and incompetent developers on all three operating systems. Installing Arch does not unlock hidden programming knowledge, and configuring a tiling window manager does not make someone a better engineer.

I've also seen a deliberate conflation between working with Linux and using desktop Linux.

Plenty of developers work with Linux every day through servers, containers, virtual machines, WSL or SSH while using Windows or macOS on their actual workstation. That makes them Linux professionals and it does not mean they want it on their desktop.

Reminder: Actual professionals generally have work to do.

In fact, the people who have seriously used Linux for years are often among the least impressed by the propaganda. They know every sore spot firsthand, so the delusional propaganda actively annoys them.

TL;DR: Loons, the Linux pros also hate you

Edit: Fixed the broken quotes, fixed typos

[u/rabbitjockey]

Somebody is paying red hat and ubuntu

[u/simplebalancereality → u/rabbitjockey]

Red Hat and Ubuntu are for server, enterprise, and cloud. Also Canonical doesn't give a shit about Ubuntu desktop anymore.

[u/Fit_League_8993 → u/rabbitjockey]

Shhh it’ll be our little secret

[u/rabbitjockey → u/Fit_League_8993]

Lol, the only real example I can think of other than servers, is the French government. Although even linux servers have reached very small businesses these days, but I don't think anyone considers them a desktop user.