I think the reason going into music is that way because the industry is already hyper competitive as is, and the “selection” process for talent shifts earlier. Perhaps CS will go that way eventually.

Anyway, when I made the comment, I was thinking it should be an elective and intended for people who either aren’t that familiar with Linux or want to become even more comfortable with it. There are certainly plenty of such students in my experience, myself included when I was in college.

Also just to be clear, this shouldn’t be just about “being able to run Linux at home” level of material, but things like writing non trivial applications using Linux subsystems and being able to troubleshoot them.