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Maybe not Linux per se, but certainly learning how to write scripts and other technical stuff, to automate boring tasks or alert me of things, or writing applications to do things I need, has been a massive time saver - but also a time waster as I enjoy it, and probably spend longer on these things than the amount of time they've saved.
And as footnote, it's always easier to do this stuff on Linux than Windows... plus you can stick things on a Pi so it's cheap and quiet.
Scripting is the closest thing to magic I've seen in real life. Wave your hand over the script and poof, a job is done.
I automated so much at my last job I usually never "worked" more than a half hour a day. I am not a programmer, but I slowly learned enough Excel functions and VBA, then simple batch files and some AutoHotkey. Since it was only stuff for my job I needed to learn to program for, it took much less time than learning to program for any situation. Also much of your work is going to be relatively the same as many others' work, so there is a lot of code out there you can lift from and tweak until you learn to build it from scratch.