In August of 2010, I was one of the first employees at a small startup called GroupMe. The story seems familiar—a duo of young entrepreneurs started the company and modeled it on a problem they had.

For one, programming skills are high-income skills. This means that they enable you to earn significantly more than you would make with some other skill sets, leading to a lucrative career. And ...

Linux offers a wide range of free programming tools like GCC, GDB, Vim, and Emacs that are preinstalled and useful. You can code on Linux without fully switching the OS using tools like WSL, making it ...