“You don’t belong here,” said a stern, gray prompt—the Linux terminal, bash .
“I know,” said Rufus. “But I want to learn.”
One evening, after writing a Windows 11 ISO to a flash drive for the hundredth time, Rufus decided to take a walk. He slipped through the cracks in the filesystem, past the NTFS partitions and the Registry hives, until he reached the kernel’s edge.