The truth is, it's hard to find a good loyal audience to monetize. My main blogging revenue is Medium Partner Program. Since beginning of 2020 I made around $500 from something like 5 articles. I don't blog a lot but I have access to pretty popular programming publications on there, allowing me to reach a wider audience. I also made some money from people reaching out to write posts for them. It's not a lot, but considering I only have 1.4k followers and treat my blog as more of a reminder/documentation for myself in the future, it's also not bad.
Medium can suck though, as their algorithm decides whether your posts will be shown on the homepage. Personal self hosted blogs on the other hand can be hard to optimise for search engines, which is something medium is great at.
Don't try to make blogging your main thing. You will either fail or it will take along time for you to see any decent sums in the first place. Do it on the side, and if it takes off then you can consider doing it full time.
I've been blogging about programming on Medium for 6 months now. I'm a part of the partner program, and I'm able to make about $100 a month, and tey to publish an article a month. This is probably where my motivation comes from, since I know I'm going to make at least a little money from the time it took me to write the blog. However I also publish some more articles on my personal site (https://tdom.dev), since I'm not really a fan of medium. It's only good for reaching an audience. I would rather make 0 from my personal blog and get thes same amount of views as on medium, but oh well.
See, I love the Linux environment. I've been using Arch for the past 6 months and I absolutely love it.
I have problems with it though. Watching 4k (or even full hd) netflix on Linux can be an absolute nightmare. I'm pretty sure that's just because of lack of good hardware acceleration support on Linux because I tried everything. Also the battery life isn't quite there yet on my machine :(.
I think I will be switching back to Linux soon, upgrade my ram and just run a Windows VM for those rare occasions I need it.