I'm sure the things I've learned/relearned as a part of joining this community seem pretty small fry to most people here.
It's just a slow journey of learning where everything lives, what commands to use (I found out 'byobu-info' brings back
the helpful home page) and the ways you can use them. 

I have managed to slightly automate the connection process because messing around with the PuTTY settings each time was
starting to get annoying. I can now reliably log in and navigate without getting lost.