I share this with you. I like Linux. I am also perhaps ‘out there’ in my need to know the innards of things.
Guys used to have cars and tinker with them. Women might have joined in the day and have more recently, but computerized controls makes most things difficult without special equipment.
More hobbyists nowadays have computers and have played about with the Hardware of Desktops and rarely with Notebooks, but it is not the same thing as the moving parts are few and how things work are mostly unknown without being able to get your hands dirty at the software level.
With either a PC or Mac and then later with the IPhones or the Android Phones rather little is allowed to the hobbyist, other than those working for the companies or a few high-level hackers.
Linux affords me a way to get deep into the software, other than firmware and the MBR components and I have hungered for a smartphone which does not treat me or you as a dummy and allows us to work inside its software core.
Then I come up against the crud of the M.2 card modems and a good deal more and find that I still am frustrated in trying to understand the whole of it.
At least, once I get the Librem 5, however clunky its interface may be at the outset and its mega size may be as well, I can tinker a bit with it and have some of the fun to which I am looking forward to.
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