I guess I was unclear. The original post, which I was responding to, compared programming capability to literacy and described it as "the language of logic". The implication being that as long as somebody can learn to think algorithmically that they can use programming to solve their problems. My claim is that tooling is so terrible that "being able to think algorithmically" is not sufficient. Instead, you need to know all of this troubleshooting garbage.

When I said "there aren't really transferrable skills here" I mean that learning to think algorithmically will not transfer to being able to resolve these sorts of configuration problems.

Your final suggestion is similar here. Nothing about "learning to think algorithmically" helps you know that there is some tool already installed on linux that can do this. That's trivia, not logical reasoning. One can learn the trivia, but we should recognize that this is a necessary step towards making programming a daily part of many peoples' lives.