Linux turned UNIX into a free alternative, something people who should probably be using Windows, or who don’t need a computer at all, turned to when Ubuntu arrived, and now I get questions about Linux like “where do I click to turn on the wireless?” and answers like “Click the system preferences menu item, then click networking, then…”

When there’s work I want to do for no good reason, there’s nothing I like better than finding someone has already done it. With what I call the web shell, I read the incipient article well after it was written, and decided I wanted a command-style search-&-shortcuts page for my browser.