I also went through the book in school, I learnt so much from it. Back then, I only had a single computer, so while I didn't really need your computer for day-

I also went through the book in school, I learnt so much from it. Back then, I only had a single computer, so while I didn't really need your computer for day-to-day work (or at least, it was rarely required to maintain my income), it forced me to carry on with LFS long past the book, all the way up to installing GNOME and OpenOffice. It was very worthwhile, and the residual knowledge I have from that process is still used frequently.