> I'm curious to know how you and the parent comment came about to know about HN, what an IDE is, Debian. I started using Linux while I was at university, read

> I'm curious to know how you and the parent comment came about to know about HN, what an IDE is, Debian. I started using Linux while I was at university, reading law. But I spent as much time with computer science and computer engineering friends as I did with other law students - in fact, probably a lot more - and spent plenty of time tinkering with servers and networks. And that’s stood me in good stead for tinkering with legal stuff to do with networks, servers, and related things.