[m0rissette]

I don’t think the web peasants will ever learn as much as you would growing up with and building servers at home. I wish you could still do stage 1 installs and things still didn’t work so nicely. That’s how I got my chops; you want a multi monitor setup on Linux better RTFM for X and figure out how to manually configure it and deal with the configuration randomly breaking until you chattr it. Learning I feel was easier when things weren’t as good as they are now. You get less time just troubleshooting in general which I think is really what I do, at the end of the day I describe what I do as “I solve problems”. Random rant for nostalgia over.

[lifeisstillgood]

If learning to read or write was like that, sometimes the book is blank, or in a foreign language or the pencil sometimes makes a mark and sometimes does not.

I agree partly - but mostly it's ok to learn like that when someone else is paying for your time (parents, employer whatever).

[marmaduke]

Web peasants will just have/find/create a different set of problems to solve, no?

[m0rissette]

That requires motivation to find vs forced to figure out.