How much can learning Linux help with an understanding of PC hardware?

I'm a good technician, but I'm pretty average when it comes to my knowledge of hardware. I'm looking to kill two birds with one stone by learning Linux.

How much can learning Linux help with an understanding of PC hardware?
Having Linux as your OS does not help with understanding hardware.





I've been building Intel x86 based systems since 1987 and using linux since 1992 in the Yggdrasil days, while you may have to understand hardware to some degree when installing the Linux OS it's not a pre-requisite as much.





Linux has a stronger network based connection to the hardware then does Microslop or Frapple. In order to understand the complexities of many of the features of Un*x based system you have to know networking essentials. Specifically TCP/IP networking.


Most of the applications served up on Un*x are based in the TCP/IP suite of protocols. Except GIMP, Open Office or emacs or vi.


In the darkages when I was using DOS 3.0 writing batch files was pretty much a normal daily activity, now I spend my days in a vi screen writing shell scripts, sql statements or php scripts.





The way to learn is to do.
Reply:None. Linux is computer software. If you want to learn more about hardware, research it. Start taking some old computers apart and putting them back together, building your own custom PCs, etc. There's not much to the hardware, it's the software that causes the vast majority of issues.