I disagree. Sometime, a structured approach allows to discover things you don’t even know exist

https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/book-startup_en.pdf

The best pdf imo

https://fr.linuxfromscratch.org/view/lfs-stable/

To know what the standard packages do

He talks about it in this video (the video this thread is about)

I had a two laptop: one main for gaming and a shitty computer for school. I had to code on python. It was easier to setup on linux. I liked KDE. I installed kubuntu on the laptop for school.

As soon as I stopped playing videogames on my main computer I went for linux definitely

Edit: it was 10 years ago