[arenaninja]

Focus is hard, but it's great that you learned this in under a year. I still have issues with focus now and then. Like when I decided that I was gonna spend 2 hours after work for a week on new tech and decided to try and pick up clojure... except that I'd never used a lisp, and after a myriad of compiler errors that I was plowing through, I eventually gave up and I know no more clojure today than I did then. In the meantime, I passively continue to improve on those things that I do know (PHP/Python/JS).

I had the same issue with emacs/vim and while I use vim now, I don't consider myself a vim power user

Lastly, the OS... I started with Ubuntu, wasted a week trying to get CentOS minimal up and running (I couldn't), ran with Kubuntu and have used it for about a year. Fedora is growing on me right now since I just spent the past week downloading/destroying/upgrading VMs, but I think that was more trying to find the right flavor of Linux for what I need than anything else (and with Faience theme, GNOME 3 is pretty good, although slow in a VirtualBox VM since you can't have more than 256VRAM)