Becoming a Techno Mage
The first step to becoming a techno mage is to know what one is. According to OpenBlade, A techno mage is a free software warrior, and a wanted criminal.
A step by step guide
Here's a step by step guide that I used to become a true techno mage.
- Install Linux, any distro will do
- Break your GUI 20 times, and recover from a shell each time
- Distro hop for 2 years
- Get a ThinkPad (bonus points if its more than 15 years old)
- Use a minimal Linux distro on the ThinkPad and start using Suckless software
- Start using OpenBSD exclusively
- Learn about Plan9
- Live on Plan9