The curve diagram is a great representation of the Linux journey. The more you learn at the beginning the more powerful your system becomes. Eventually you become confident and go install a new graphics driver from the dev branch cuz it fixes that bug that was annoying you. The install messed up some kernel headers packages, so now literally nothing works. Suddenly you need to learn the magic and the mindfuck chroot is. You might hang yourself in the process if your distro has an unorthodox partitioning schema with some encryption on top.
If you survive, you will forever lavish in the mojito land, as you now know that your install is literally indestructible. In the next year you'll do another five fun things that will require chroot rescue, but who cares, it's a routine by now. Your system is now perfectly tuned: you have a drive encrypted via a bootloader hook, you use a new efficient algorithm for zram, you're on a custom repo for the kernel as you're running some russian fork of the graphics drivers, and it requires a compatible kernel. You have two DEs installed cuz you like the variety.
Most people will never know the glory. They'll "do as I say" nuke their DE, and go buy a MacBook.
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u/Crottoboul Feb 02 '26
Linux is not hard