>I also have run linux as my main OS since I was 16, and that exposes you variously to a lot of code, or at least it used to. Taking the plunge and daily drivi

>I also have run linux as my main OS since I was 16, and that exposes you variously to a lot of code, or at least it used to. Taking the plunge and daily driving Linux as a young teen is what I ascribe like 80% of my current-day machine sympathy to. I think any young person with any professional or personal interest in computing at all should do this. It's just very hard to "book learn" all the weird little things spending thousands of recreational tinkering hours in a Unix-like system will teach you.