You also gained a comfort level poking around in moderately complex system that could break if you did something wrong, and then force you to step through problem solving to fix it. This is a very important skill. (Though it's also important to understand when potentially breaking something, even temporarily, is low stakes vs. something to be avoided at all costs)

It's a skill I like to call a "video game mentality" that I think was probably influential in the rise of technology: video games gave players the ability to push buttons and experiment in all kinds of ways with a technological system but in a very low stakes environment.

I don't think I would have been nearly as comfortable poking around and tweaking system variables in my first computers running Windows 3.X and 95 if I didn't have years of experience poking around in other pixel-based environments in the form of videogames. I would break things, panic, realize that whatever it was, it was fixable, go through trial and error, learn to find other people and resources to help, fix the problem, and do it all over again at some point.