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Why I Love Bash

If you don’t know Bash, you don’t really know your computer.
You only know how to use someone else’s interface.

Everything else — GNOME, Chrome, VS Code — it's all a wrapper.
Bash is the interface. The first interface.
The one that teaches you how things actually work.

Bash is Power

  • Fastest way to do anything
  • Full access to the filesystem
  • Pipes, loops, conditionals — it’s a real programming language
  • Automate your whole life
  • It works everywhere (macOS, Linux, WSL)

It’s Usually the First Class

CS101, Linux 101, DevOps 101 — you start in the terminal.
Why? Because that’s where real control is.

And once you learn how to think in Bash,
you’ll write fewer TODOs and more DONEs.

Real Sovereignty Requires Real Interfaces

You can’t call yourself “sovereign” if you can’t:

  • Kill your own processes
  • SSH into a box
  • Write a backup script

If all you know is UI — you’re always asking for permission.

Bash means you own the machine.

Final Thought

Bash is ugly, but it’s pure. It will teach you more than any app ever will.

And when you hit that “aha” moment — when you write a script that saves you hours — you’ll never want to click again.