Game in the Brain

Alicloud had documentation about limitations which I appreciate. I wish we keep in mind the limitations when offering solutions and are capable of giving options that don’t profit us. 

As I’ve been advocating Linux and Open source for a while I learned that I can quantify the “Learning Curve” in about hours per week. The way I learned that being a parent and a husband means after the 50-70 hours a week of work relationships and family eat up time we used to spend on hobbies regenerating happiness and pleasure. 

So I can say that if you study 10-20 hours a week IT studies will take up that time – time you would have spent playing a game, catching up with loved ones, and regenerating Happiness. 

Taking on the IT duties of a family business, the office, or for your side biz will eat up time depending on where you are in your life. 

We are all in different places in our life, and we may not be ready to invest in that time. 

OR we are one of many who lost Income and gained a lot of time from the Forced Leaves because of the pandemic. Just because you have less office work, doesn’t mean other costs have gone away. Sometimes losing income means losing more time – as man parents learned that the school’s function also managed their kid’s time by being more efficient than a parent in directing a child’s attention by scaling it and having the social inertia of other kids. 

No one tells you having a relationship will consume 10-30 hours a week after your 50-80 hours of work. No one tells you that having a Kid will consume 10-30 hours a week as well. So I want to say that Learning IT because you have more time than money means taking a set of skills that requires a lot of Upkeep. Learning Linux and Open Source tech is more time consuming than learning a packaged Microsoft Product. 

Learning 

1. …to use Ubuntu may cost you 20-30 manhours of bloody trial and error. Instead of just paying 30-100usd for Win10. You may need an old computer and enough space to try this out. Best to try with a weak laptop in Win10 and a fairly powerful computer made more powerful by Linux. 
2. …to use LibreOffice is to spend 30-100 hours mastering spreadsheets and learning which stable processes work – vs running with MS365.
3. …to use QEMU/KVM/Virt-Manager/Virtual Box will cost you 20-30 manhours but you don’t have to pay 100k PHP per license per core of VMware. 
4. …to use PFsense instead of getting a CISCO firewall,  which costs about 700k PHP per 100 users. Learning PFsense on your own requires the hardware and about 20-40 hours plus the prerequiresite equipment. 
5. …ERPNext will take 30-100 hours to have a stable server and all the prerequisite knowledge to have it operate and run. But you won’t have to spend about 2.5M PHP for 10 users – with the 15,000php per manday of developer customization or 5,000php for Projectmanager manday of management. 

Can you do this and pull this off? I don’t know and I cannot guarantee. If one wants guarantees