beneath some surface level shit I’m probably one of the dumbest motherfuckers here when it comes to not setting my devices on fire.

Well... if you actually want to learn, as we ALL did, get yourself a device you can literally set on fire. By that I mean a RPi 3 (probably going for 10 EUR nowadays) or a 2nd hand laptop. If you can't find that easily, try a virtual machine, if you don't want to bother give a whirl (with a ad blocker...) to https://distrosea.com/ and come back, risk free.

It's honestly empowering to learn and it has been relevant for decades (basically since the UNIX days) and STILL is relevant today in the time of the "cloud" where all such commands are still used.