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I’ve been using Linux since 2007, when I was a teenager. My first distro was Fedora. Almost immediately, that same year, I started experimenting with deep system stuff and tuning, because I’m a minimalista and a hacker by nature.

It has always been great, and I’ve always been saying that Apple and Microsoft suck dirt. In my life, there were a couple of random years when I had to deal with that trash because of my music project, but I threw it all away soon after. It is the worst kind of American corporate bullshit. You do not own your things with them. You rent your whole digital life instead of owning it, and you become their asset, their harvested data product, something they exploit and don’t respect as an equal.

But today, when we can all clearly see how those tech corporations can damage real life, it matters even more. This is not like in 2010, when saying Apple sucks was just some nerd opinion. Now it is actually dangerous.

Big tech, social media, and all those overgrown money machines have shown their real consequences in life: populist propaganda, bending their knees to random dictators – against key principles of humanity, freedom, truth aggressive ads and surveillance, brainwashing, and mass stupidity pushed through their power, because they care only about profit on paper and nothing else.

We already see the consequences in real life: wars, real loses and pain, and whole societies going blind under propaganda and manipulations. These corporations do not care about truth, freedom, dignity, or depth. They care about control, money, and keeping people passive enough to exploit.

That is why it is especially important now to use and promote Linux and free open-source software, and to tell other people to wake up against techno-feudalism.

I have always been setting up all those Linux configs and deep terminal things myself. I always preferred going deep level of simple and principal things for better understanding and cleaner path to truth and efficiency, where things are real, where you actually understand what the machine is doing, and where you still have control.

Today, with AI, and not only American cloud systems like Google or OpenAI, but also offline and local models (I use them), you can go so much deeper into computing, and it is so fucking amazing. Now I can easily rewrite an app for my own needs, set up a system exactly how I want it, and shape workflows around my own mind instead of adapting myself to mass-market garbage. AI gives real depth to that. You can go much deeper to computers than before. It is like having eight hands and eight brains at once. For a hacker, it is an insane expansion of power.

But one thing must be remembered if you want to reach that level of depth. It is minimalism, critical thinking, focus on real progress and discipline that lead you there.

Without minimalism, you drown in noise. Without discipline, all this power becomes chaos. The point is not just more tools. The point is a sharper relationship between your mind and the machine.

Personally, I build almost all my workflow around terminals. The CLI of an open-source system is the best base for flexible and scalable computing, including even basic everyday things. I use khal or Joplin CLI even for basic office scheduling. It gives fast keyboard flows and total control over all your hardware, files, and process. What could be better than that? I can hardly imagine it.

If you are still not on Linux, you are just a loser, and not as an insult, but in the direct sense: you lose huge power, freedom, independence, and, in the end, your money and status too.