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For many, it might be too much. For me, and possibly others, it was exactly what was needed. I wanted to learn about things like partitioning (I had just destroyed my family's HDD while using another distro's GUI installer, and wanted to know how do it the right way). I tend to be a bottom-up learner. Years later, when I started studying computer science at a university, I would be more interested in assembly than java. The approach has served me well, but others certainly benefit from learning in other ways.