technology

If you do want your computer to be more comfortable then rather than the nebulous "learn to code" learning to script (simple programs that run from top to bottom) to automate annoying or repetitive tasks is a really good way.

I am biased, I started as a system administrator and learned to program that way (now I'm an ok programmer, slow but I try and make very robust programs that are performant).

On my computer I have a /home/rat/bin/ folder on my PATH variable (that determines how console evaluated "programname command" type entries, it looks on the PATH for programname and invokes it) that I fill with little half baked helpers for myself.

Just yesterday I decided I needed something to remind me to stretch, so I added a little piece of code (literally just "notify-send 'Take a stretch break'") and added a systemd timer unit to call it 20 minutes after boot and twenty minutes after that. There's lots of ways I could improve it (pause when inactivity, overrule DnD, add pausing functions, add a systray applet thing) but no need to start with all that and no need to dive right in to some bloated piece of crap bundling electron for something that just increases how much I stretch.

You'll probably have stuff you do often: clearing out old downloads, searching for files in a particular directory, opening a set of programs together, switching between night and say brightness and volume, renaming stuff, setting up folder structures and so on. If you find yourself repeating something you can ask "Is there a way to just have this happen automatically?"

Linux's POSIX (mostly) compliance makes it really easy because you can just start by going "I guess I'll chain my most common commands together" and worry about adding arguments/error recovery/logs etc if it's ever relevant.