Most of the experience you can get in Linux you can get in several other systems (i. e. the BSDs or Solaris derivatives) but 90% of the time, Linux will have the broadest hardwsre and niche softwsre supoort.
It’s likely that affordable PC Unix would have ended up based on BSD had there been less of a legal fracas around the codebase at just the moment Linux hit the scene.
At this point, inertia.
Most of the experience you can get in Linux you can get in several other systems (i. e. the BSDs or Solaris derivatives) but 90% of the time, Linux will have the broadest hardwsre and niche softwsre supoort.
It’s likely that affordable PC Unix would have ended up based on BSD had there been less of a legal fracas around the codebase at just the moment Linux hit the scene.