I'm seperating concerns here with a seperate answer: I do exactly the opposite, when it comes to software! I started "learning computers" a few years ago, rathe

I'm seperating concerns here with a seperate answer: I do exactly the opposite, when it comes to software! I started "learning computers" a few years ago, rather than just pointing and clicking in a Windows 7 laptop, understanding nothing, hoping it all works, being vaguely terrified something might go wrong, panicking if it does. I moved to Linux (Ubuntu first, then tons of distro-hopping, etc etc). I look at what's available in the repositories, and allow that to frame my universe. You don't miss what you don't know. So there's a chance I could be missing some wonderful stuff, sure. However, I've found a solution for everything I've needed at every stage of the past 4 odd years. My understanding has skyrocketed, no real expertise but tons of little things I was terrified of before now seem standard to me, and I feel that exploring terminals and operating systems and text editors and so on has been a big part of that. Documentation and tutorials and all on that side of the "tech world" seem just lovely, and like they're not trying to trick me into anything. Going "open-source-first-and-only", with extremely rare exceptions if I absolutely must, was the key for me there. I understand how not everyone's personal and professional situation permits them to do that though, just sharing my perspective :)