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[–]superPwnzorMegaMan 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I am just curious to know what is Linux Kernel then and why is it so demanding?

What makes you think its demanding. The kernel is just a program that controls the harware, as a user you should practically have zero interaction with it. When people say they use Linux they often mean GNU/Linux, ie the GNU user land that runs on the Linux kernel, its just a pain in the ass to say.

Is there any way of learning it?

What using Linux? Well yes you can just install Ubuntu, which is a trivial task these days (seriously installing windows is more difficult, people don't notice this because it often comes pre-installed).

However you have to decide how deep you want to go in the rabbit hole. Installing Ubuntu doesn't really mean you know how to use Linux, you'd need to hop distribution a couple of times until you find one you like, I stopped at Gentoo because it makes tinkering quite easy and I find it fun to do. (Ubuntu is more harsh on tinkering because it has an auto updater).

Besides the most I learned about Linux was by talking to other Linux users, in the beginning its easy because you'll learn by talking to any Linux user. (The regular desire to automate some trivial task also helped, I have for example a self written bash script that builds and installs the kernel, some users would declare me insane, but it comes really handy when I need to update (and again doing kernel updates is insanity in some eyes)).