https://www.libcom.de/en/tags/terminal/ Recent content in Terminal on libcom.de Hugo en-GB Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/the-raw-power-of-the-computer/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/the-raw-power-of-the-computer/ <p>&ldquo;Computers matter.&rdquo; Say it today and you provoke scarcely any dissent — and scarcely any notice. Too self-evident, too obvious. Yet what we mean by it is no longer what one would first suspect.</p> <p>I am not speaking of the computer as typewriter, as gateway to the internet, as screen for streaming services. I am speaking of a quality that borders on the provocative: the union of what one nowadays calls a personal computer with a system like Linux. Of a certain measure of rawness.</p>