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Learning to config:

One of the most important things you learn in software development is how you keep up with all the things you keep configured. Linux is a similar setup, but 100x’ed. Depending on the distro, you may be able to configure everything from hard drive mount points to the color of primary buttons in all the GTK applications in the system. So, learning to keep up your configurations can be super important.

In most cases, your config is gonna be in 4 or 5 different markup languages. For reference, a quick look at my configs have these types: .ini, .json, .toml, .css, .lua, .yml, .conf, .xml, .py, and a lisp or two. It all depends on what you’re using, but for the most part, need to learn two things: how to look up the docs for your software, and how to quickly learn how to read and write different languages.