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One of the things that helped me back in the day was installing and running Arch Linux for some time. While it's not programming per se, it gave me the terminal/shell/sysadmin skills I needed in my programming career.

If you have time and don't already have good UNIX skills I highly recommend it. Do it on "hard" mode though, no shortcuts. I'm sure there are scripts out there to install Arch easily, don't go for them - do it by hand!

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I've been using Arch Linux for about 6 months now— on both my work laptop and desktop at home I've spent a LOT of time adjusting both of them for their use-case. My laptop is mainly for dev stuff, and my home desktop is the same but with extra tweaks and optimizations for gaming.

I use KDE for a desktop environment, however its increasingly starting to annoy me. I've honestly spent most of my time optimizing and ricing it on both devices. I use Neovim for an editor with nvim-tree.

But after all this ricing and adjusting, I've pretty much run out of stuff to do. Thats why I'm hoping to meet people that might want to work together on stuff

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