I learnt to program in an IDE, and was born and raised in a Microsoft environment. My entire computing experience has been dominated by Microsoft.

But now I'm learning Unix-commands just for the fun and romance of it.

It may sound shallow, but one reason I want to learn Unix is because it's somewhat "mysterious" and all the cool hackers I know use Unix.

And many people I know in the IT world who can get things done often turn to Unix.

Thus, this article re-inforces my motivation to learn Unix -- the operating system of our ancestors.

I should note that it doesn't mean I hate windows. In fact as I learn unix commands I am seeing more and more that Windows was born out of Unix and is a "distorted" version of unix. But Windows feels like home to me. So I'll likely always use both: Windows and Unix.