> I spent several hours fixing a problem and I learned next to nothing in the process.
This is probably true for this specific case here, but my experience with fixing stuff in Linux is actually the opposite. I learnt a lot doing so, and learnt stuff that turned out to be later useful in very unexpected spots.
Back when I was a teen and using Windows, I've spent countless hours fiddling in stuff in regedit and other atrocities and it feels like I never learnt anything useful in the long run.
This is probably true for this specific case here, but my experience with fixing stuff in Linux is actually the opposite. I learnt a lot doing so, and learnt stuff that turned out to be later useful in very unexpected spots.
Back when I was a teen and using Windows, I've spent countless hours fiddling in stuff in regedit and other atrocities and it feels like I never learnt anything useful in the long run.