Today I suddenly realized what a mad man I have become after 3 years of using Linux

So, let's roll back a few years ago.

At that time I was starting to learn programming, and our family had friends (a couple) that actually were willing to teach me some stuff, I was excited because the husband, at that time, seemed to me like Gandalf, wanting to share his wisdom with me, a hobbit that was living his normal life in the Shire (Windows).

Alas, the classes did not last long, but one big thing that changed during that time period was my introduction to the wonderful world of Linux, and so, at last, my journey had begun.

One must imagine how naive I was at the time, Ubuntu and Gnome were my friends with whom I fought battles side to side for quite a while. The dark terminal was scaring me, and I felt awkward using cd, ls, and even nano! But with time, my skills were sharpening, so as my tools. I began learning vim, using kitty instead of built in default terminal, and tiling window managers were beginning to appear at the horizon, I was learning.

Fast moving forward, for the past 2 years at this point I have been using tiling window managers, split ortholinear ergo keyboard, configs are written by myself personally, I also have my personal nvim and vim setups, terminals etc. And recently I decided to take a look at the holy church of emacs (because that is what Gandalf the Gray said he used when I asked about his preference of choice in editors, I did not understand his choice at the time). One quick search introduced me to doom emacs (neat configuration that uses vim motions and is well put together already for you, like NVChad or LazyVim), I gave it a shot, and I loved it! But something felt wrong... And I knew exactly what: "It is not mine... I did not configure this, somebody else did and I am just sitting here and using it?". Well, yes, I made a decision to make my own configuration of emacs! And it seemed like a great opportunity to learn about it, what a great combo! (At this point you may already see how far gone I am)

And so I have began diving in a rabbit hole after a rabbit hole, it is a never ending cycle that goes to this day. Fun fact: do you know what tree-sitter, that little program that gives you code highlighting actually is? Well, it is a parser generator, but have you ever wondered what a parser is and how it works? I am not going to answer those questions, you can research on your own, that is actually super cool!

Back to the story. Today my friend (also in IT field but has a life) asked me what I was doing (I was learning what is an eshell (and what a shell is essentially)). Honestly, I don't know how to describe the emotions I felt at that moment... One hour later that felt like a minute, I told them all I knew about emacs, linux, and tried to give them a full understanding of how my computer works. Throughout this whole hour I was laughing hysterically at myself when trying to go deeper into the details because I realized how MAD it actually sounded to an outsider. Like have you ever tried to explain to your friend who is not really into computers and uses regular-ass IDE why lisp-interpreter might be one of the greatest things you have ever used? Or for example, why it is actually worth remembering potentially hundreds of keyboard shortcuts instead of "just clicking it with a mouse"? Oh man... and I feel like I am not even actually scratching the surface, I could go soo much deeper!

Well anyway, I just felt like I needed to tell somebody that little story, thank you for being my readers :D

Enjoy linux, stay fun and don't bully people ;D

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