You're allowed to limit how much crap from the 1980s you allow into your life. If you want to learn about the Good Stuff (schedulers, filesystems, TCP algorithm

You're allowed to limit how much crap from the 1980s you allow into your life. If you want to learn about the Good Stuff (schedulers, filesystems, TCP algorithms) as soon as possible, jumping a bit and leaving the completely arbitrary bootloader stuff to some pre-written system is completely reasonable.