What does it mean to be able to use linux?

Question

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Hello!
70% of vacancies in the item

will be a plus

They write that Ability to use linux
What does this mean? (What's the point?)
What does the employer mean?

Answer 1

not to faint at the sight of an interface other than Windows and a terminal.

Answer 2

It would be nice to see the entire vacancy, but most likely it means nothing to the employer. Otherwise, he would have specified specific requirements for knowledge of linux.
It is quite possible that the employer has several services or servers deployed on Linux, he himself does not touch them in any way, but constantly attracts third-party specialists and wants to be in the subject of these service servers. But it's like asking the cleaning lady to clean the tables too.
In my opinion, this does not characterize the employer in the best way, with rare exceptions. For example, all our engineers are sitting at Linux, and most of them do not understand anything in this very Linux. The maximum that they need is how to copy files from place to place, and their main work is in CAD. And in their vacancy there are a bunch of words that I don’t understand about CAD, design, production technologies, process chemistry, tracing, and at the end of the line - “Knowledge of Linux will be a plus”.

Answer 3

For example, in order to reasonably claim that you know how to use Linux, you should test yourself by trying to answer questions tagged Linux here on Toaster regarding how to solve a particular problem. You can answer most of it, you understand what those that you cannot answer right away mean, more or less, you know.

Answer 4

Probably, this is when you know what a terminal is and how to use the man help.

Answer 5

This is how everything works on Linux for such people
And knowing how to use Linux means knowing how to use Linux

Answer 6

What the employer means, only the employer knows. Perhaps it will be enough to know that Linux is not an animal, a hornbeam is not a tree, and a bucket is not a container for carrying water :) It is possible to be able to do the simplest things in the console. And perhaps - to be able to figure out what happened to the LVM volume and restore it with console commands...