It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers and managers. They are the crazy voices in your head, and you need to set them right, not just blindly do what they ask for.

On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.