@zandikar I wish you luck and much learning and also joy and a bit of the useful kind of temporary frustration.
If you want to discuss stuff, you can of course find everyone you need here: from OS-agnostic ops people who treat the shell like a forklift to move stuff where it needs to go and maybe pull some stunts on Friday after OSHA has left the warehouse (like me) all the way up to actual kernel hackers and who knows what else besides.
Recommended follow for shell-fu: @wvu
Appreciate the encouragement! Thankfully I'm not new to linux, this is more of a back-to-basics refresher + something that's always been on my to do list, but still, (re)learning a lot of things, including many I've forgotten or misunderstood. Definitely worth it so far imo.
Sidenote, I now have a much better appreciation for how much time/compute it takes to compile linux.
And yeah, love this place and just how many skilled people and knowledge is out here.