I’ve been using Linux for three decades (In November 2026).
Is Linux perfect?
Is Linux Easy?
...and the lessons I finally learned.
In this video I walk through eight of them:
• Why I run different distros on different machines
• How I decide how fast things change
• Why I learn the operation instead of the command
• When I use the GUI and when I drop to the shell
• How Linux once showed me a project was going to fail — and I listened
• How to make Linux fit the job
• And why, after all these years, I’d still choose it again
It’s the hard-won perspective that comes from actually using the thing for a long time.
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:49 - Linux Gives Me Choices
03:42 - Decide How Fast Things Change
04:46 - Learn the Operation
06:23 - GUI and Shell
08:57 - I Can Build THings in the Shell
11:00 - Linux Let's Me See Hwat Happenning
15:55 - I Can Make Linux Fit the Job
19:50 - Linux Keeeps Me Learning