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Enjoy your stable systems while you can! Learning comes through solving problems as they come up. It's a good sign if you don't have to.
Need some new functionality? Figure out how to set it up. Encounter a bug or issue? Troubleshoot and fix it. Functionality that you want doesn't exist? Time to program it yourself.
You can also start customizing (ricing) your system as you wish. Take a look at unixporn style communities for inspiration and advice.
Thanks for the reply.
I'm guessing systems tend to lose stability over time? What's something that broke that you've had to fix in the past that sticks out in your mind, doesn't matter the reason.
I've been using Linux a long time. Eventually when you get a brand spanking new system or upgrade a component, you will inevitably have to compile a driver from source.
For the longest time, I had to extract garbage from a Windows wifi driver, package it into a Linux driver and pray it worked. Every. New. Kernel.
Now most of my hardware just about works unless it's super fresh. More than anything my problems stem from some Library I use for a hobby project being poorly documented, requiring an ancient external source, or just being incomplete in a way I find frustrating.
So my answer is start hobby coding and then hate your life because everything you learned is functionally incomplete and existentially annoying.
Looking directly at you Intel Extension for Pytorch.
Thanks for the insight thus far. I appreciate it.