I dunno, I think it's hard to claim in full what types of people are using Unix/Linux since that's not exactly quantitative data. I mean, anecdotally, for every

I dunno, I think it's hard to claim in full what types of people are using Unix/Linux since that's not exactly quantitative data. I mean, anecdotally, for every one person I know who does know their way around the various nix systems and understands enough to safely mess with the deep system settings, I know several folk who have a linux install because they do coding and someone told them that Linux is the best OS to code in, and it's almost always Ubuntu. (Not a knock against Ubuntu, but with the people I have in mind, Ubuntu is picked because of brand familiarity, not because of conscious choice). Of course that's entirely anecdotal but the point is that there are a lot of reasons people are drawn to Linux, and it's not just because of the ability and knowledge to do more. I'm happy your kids are modding minecraft, just like I thought it was cool when my cousin did the same. But, in my cousin's case at least, it wasn't because he's the type to really mess with things, but because he wanted mods and was told how to do it. I still think it's good of him, but it doesn't really mean he has any more interest in really understanding computers than he did before the mods.