The author makes a really good point. I always felt that spending time learning the Nix language would be a complete waste of time (for me), which is why I never ventured into using it (although I do use the Lix[1] package manager, which is fantastic).
Meanwhile, I learnt a ton of transferable skills when I forked Bazzite and customised the Containerfile, as well by simply _using_ Bazzite for everyday/productivity stuff, since you end up making heavy use of containers. All of this directly helped me at work, as I used the same concepts to get rid of some of our traditional VMs and switch to OCI containers and related tooling. And the fact that we use Red Hat at work also helped, since the uBlue project uses Fedora. So yeah, both what I've been doing at work and home, have been benefiting each other, which is awesome.
And this is all thanks to me wanting to build the perfect gaming+productivity machine... once again, I find my gaming ventures leading to career growth—just like the time I accidentally learnt MS-DOS because I wanted to play Prince of Persia and Dangerous Dave on my cousin's 286 while he wasn't around.
[1] https://lix.systems/
