I’ve been searching for a VFX/3D art job for a very long time. Most positions don’t mention Linux as a requirement and when they do, it’s just a familiarity or basic competency implied.

Lately I’ve been seeing a few that require * proficiency*. There is nothing else in the job description that would lead me to think the position requires coding/programming skills. Of course one would be troubleshooting proprietary software issues on linux, but in my understanding that would be relying more on proficiency in said software than in the OS.

I might be wrong though.

I’ve used Linux before but I wouldn’t call myself “proficient”. What would that be, in your opinion, and could you recommend any resources (perhaps tutorials) in particular?

TIA

  • seralth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Honestly no company is going to realistically use anything but a standard floating window style desktop environment.

    And if you can use one you can use them all. So really it’s just a matter of proficiency is just you don’t shit your self in feet because of a slightly different layout or color palette.

    Iv had to deal with plenty of people that just moving the windows task bar from the bottom to the top was enough to make them go full stupid and forget they have been using a PC for 20 years.

    So if you can do better then that you are going to be fine ina corporate context 99.999% of the time.

    • Zak@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Iv had to deal with plenty of people that just moving the windows task bar from the bottom to the top was enough to make them go full stupid and forget they have been using a PC for 20 years.

      This is why I drink.