> but I'm not confident in my Linux knowledge & abilities in their own right.
One thing that's great about inspectable systems is that you need to learn very little to start being able to discover how any part of the system works. On Linux, as soon as you learn about strace/attaching debuggers/places to get kernel stacks from/... you gain a universal way to tell how something that you can clearly see working works.
> When I latch onto a problem, I never give up until I've found a solution, even if the problem takes years to resolve.
Inspectable computing systems is a way to get to that approach that I'm particularly partial to, because of 9(?) year old me slowly figuring out that gpm and X trying to read from the same mouse is what made mouse unusable in my first installation of Linux over the course of weeks or months.
