Why Every DevOps Engineer Needs to Fall in Love With Linux (Before Anything Else) When I started learning DevOps, I made the classic beginner mistake. I jumped straight into Docker tutorials, then AWS, then Kubernetes — because those are the tools that show up in every job description and every flashy YouTube thumbnail. Linux felt boring. Old. Something my seniors used because "that's just how it's always been done." It took me exactly one broken container, one failed SSH connection, and ...