I have been using Linux for about 5 years and although I don’t consider that I know much, I know enough to fix my own problems and that’s usually enough for me.
Since Plasma 6 was announced I wanted to test something other than XFCE, Gnome or Plasma (or any DE) so I give it a try with ArcoLinuxD i3wm and is increible the amount of things I learn the ‘hard way’ because there was no GUI to do the things I want to do, or maybe I was too lazy to do it with the terminal since there is always the ‘easy way’.
Things that might be very easy for a lot of people, but I never take the time to learn, like mounting drives, running programs from startup, setting environment variables, creating desktop entries, and a lot of other things I didn’t even remember. I even learned to use things that used to give me a headache just looking at it, like Vim, xdg, the Archwiki (that is super useful) and the manpages.
It’s ironic because something that started as an experiment is now my daily drive, and now that Plasma 6 has been released, I don’t want to leave i3 behind.
Or just never learn linux, use it.
I want to use my OS to do my job; I don’t want my OS to be my job.
Yeah, when I do something a lot I sometimes bother to learn to do it faster. Otherwise I don’t. I love the high skill ceiling to linux, but I also love that the floor keeps lowering.
I quit years back because the floor was too high. I got back in after it lowered. I use my computer for a lot of things, but I’m not really fucking around with it to fuck around. I have things I want to do, and it’s best when it’s easy to learn how to do them