As someone who has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years, I love to answer this question.
At the time of the writing of this article, I am 45 years old, 30 of those years I have had contact with computers, being MS-DOS the first OS I ever learned and used daily, BASIC the first programming language I used and an Apex Epson PC, the first computer I ever touched. Someone who is in their early 20s these days, probably never had to use the command line to run a program, and probably doesn’t use the word “program” but only “app”.
When you learn Linux, especially during these days, you have the opportunity to gain that knowledge and taste for what a computer really is and how it works.
Kids these days might not understand what files and folders are. This concept comes from the early DOS days, when you even had different types of executable files, such as EXEs BATs, or COMs. This is something that forged your technical mind and helped you understand how computers worked and how to do things with these.
