I grew up extremely curious of computers and technology in general, but none of the adults in my life had the same passion or education to guide me. Every time I tried to get into programming as a teenager on windows I would fall flat on my face as I found the process of simply setting up a dev environment disorienting. As we had a family computer, heavy tinkering was explicitly forbidden. If only someone could have shown me how to install a virtual machine and start toying around in a GNU shell!
I’ve heard of that! I was told it takes a long time, that was honestly enough to discourage me.