"so am i a 'non-technical person?'"

May 26, 2026, 10:45pm 1

only you can answer that, but by way of explanation: for many years, i was terrified of the command line and unix/gnu/linux and all that, despite being fascinated by software development and publishing.

as far as i can tell, nobody knew this about me, that i had this fear. in fact, many people apparently thought i was a “technical person.” and i mean, i was, but i “kept my hands clean” after ~2004 in my personal life.

in late 2025, things finally clicked again, in terms of desire for in-reach capabilities. i started using frontier LLMs to learn about the things i was terrified of, and it was much easier than it had been the other times i had tried, and the benefits have already been substantial.

nowadays, not only am i not afraid of the command line, i am using free software all the time, saving myself money and headaches, and having a blast expanding my understanding of complex technical, historical, and scholarly topics, and i want to bring those capabilities to anyone who wants them, including people who are intimidated by the same stuff i used to be afraid of.

there are, to my mind, only two important things to note about the “non-technical” orientation of enough:

1. if you ARE a technical person, you may find some of the documentation to be overly “educational” … or just plain boring and unnecessary. you also may find technical things i get wrong, in which case, please tell me! especially if i do it without a sincere hedge caveat, that’s the worst.

2. i have made a conscious decision to make installation, onboarding, and usage as convenient as possible for users WITHOUT hiding things behind layers of artificial obfuscation, the way i feel a lot of FOSS-powered commercial software does. so you will have to get more comfortable with the way a terminal works if you’ve never used one … just a little bit more comfortable, though. and support is always available if you need it!