SJW and subversive professor: "LINUX IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUR CAREER"

"You are very strongly urged to install Linux on your home PC, if you don’t already have it there."
It's from the syllabus of an old computer science course.
https://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/matloff/public_html/50/Syllabus.pdf
"Work on Minority Issues:
Professor Matloff lived in an ethnically-mixed East Los Angeles neighborhood during his early childhood, helping to shape his lifelong support for affirmative action and activism in improving conditions for people of color in general and the impoverished, as well as improving the status of women. Starting with his work in high school in the election campaign of a black woman (Myrlie Evers), his quest for social justice has been a major driving force in his life.
He writes frequently about these issues, such as his support of affirmative action, his exposure of age discrimination and abuse of foreign worker visa programs in the tech industry, and his defense of immigrant Asian-American scientists who have been discriminated against in our national laboratories (Los Alamos and NASA). Prof. Matloff has been a recipient of the UC Davis Distinguished Public Service Award, in recognition of his work in these and other areas.
Dr. Matloff brings these ideas into his teaching as well. His department has its own ethics course, ECS 188, which he has taught several times. His reading list and assigned term paper reflect this."
If I poke around I'm sure I can find some anti-MS\Windows whining from this academic.