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Out of curiosity, what exactly do you mean by this? It sounds a little like you're implying mastery of the rather vague "terminal." Do you mean everything in the terminal? Or just a common shell, like bash? Or some common cli tools?
I ask because it seems like you're suggesting that you can master the unix terminal in just a semester while you learn new important things that affect your workflow in your office suite regularly. I agree with you in regard to the office suite, but vis-a-vis the terminal... I have spent my entire life working in it, and, while I'm very comfortable, I still learn new things that affect my workflow every week at minimum.
But I fear that I'm misunderstanding you here, which is why I ask.
I mean use of the CLI on Linux generally. I used "terminal" vaguely because the original comment used it vaguely. "Down pat" is to say that I'm perfectly comfortable with it, namely that the course taught me:
I use the shell vastly more than 99.99% of people and haven't had a problem with or changed how I interact with it since that course; that to me is "down pat" for the terminal itself. I don't care if I don't know every application and flag ever made, because that's not the point β like knowing how to use a GUI doesn't mean you've memorized all GUI software, just that you know how to interpret the design language of and successfully use new GUI software. If I need to do something my current tools can't, I can just search for the right program and use the man page to quickly write a command.
Meanwhile, with something like LibreOffice Calc, which I understand is much less feature-rich than the industry standard Excel, I don't just learn about new functions like
CORREL(), akin to what I said before about learning new CLI applications; I fundamentally learn how to create and edit spreadsheets more quickly. In Impress, I still learn how to make presentations more appealing, more readable, etc. Basically things that aren't just rote memorization of gadgets that I could look up at any time. That's what sets it apart to me β the fact that anything I don't already know about the Linux terminal is present in readily available reference material and better off not memorized.