Perspective, If Not Expertise

Once upon a time, I was a Linux user who had just grad­u­ated from n00b to adven­turer.  I loved the flex­i­bil­ity pro­vided by Unix, and the free­dom pro­vided by open source soft­ware.  Min­i­mal­ist graph­i­cal user inter­faces appealed to me, before I ever dared to shed X entirely, and enlight­en­ment was the great­est thing that ever …