EVERYONE needs to learn LINUX - ft. Raspberry Pi 4

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About this video

The creator argues that everyone in IT — help desk, network or systems engineers, programmers and aspiring hackers — needs Linux now, before the skill becomes a baseline expectation rather than a differentiator. He frames Linux as just an operating system, notes that viewers already use it daily through services like YouTube and Netflix, and claims that 96% of the top 1 million websites run on Linux. He gives two reasons to learn it: it runs everywhere, from phones and smart devices to cloud servers including Microsoft Azure, and its unfamiliar command-line interface scares many engineers away, which in his telling makes competence rare, credible on a resume and valuable to employers. Guest Sean Powers recounts, as told in the video, getting hired for roles without the exact product experience because Linux experience signaled broader ability. To lower the barrier, the video offers free starting routes: a Raspberry Pi 4 described as costing $35, a free Azure account running Ubuntu, and Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10 installed via the Microsoft Store. With his eight-year-old daughter Chloe helping on a Pi, he demos the first steps end-to-end: using sudo apt-get update, installing Apache2, starting the service, then editing the default index.html in /var/www/html with nano to create a custom website served on localhost. Next steps he recommends are studying for CompTIA Linux+ and then the Red Hat Certified Administrator path, followed by DevOps tools, with network automation and cloud work as payoffs.

Key takeaways

Linux is positioned as a required IT skill because it underpins most web and cloud infrastructure, yet many engineers avoid its command line
That avoidance is the opportunity: Linux fluency is presented as rare, resume-credible, and transferable to other admin roles
You can start free today via a cheap Raspberry Pi, a free Azure Ubuntu VM, or Windows Subsystem for Linux — no dual-boot required
A complete beginner win is achievable in minutes: update packages, install and start Apache, and replace index.html to serve your own page
The suggested career ladder after basics is Linux+ then Red Hat certification, then DevOps, cloud and network automation skills that all rely on Linux

Episode details: published July 18, 2019 · 21:17 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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