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    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Obilgatory reminder to actually read the manpage. They were written for a reason. If you can't do that then either install a version of the "tldr" program like "tealdeer" or use curl cheat.sh/

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I refuse to read manpages because I hate mansplaining and I wont have The Man tell me what to do.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I know right, like give me womanpages I'd read those

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    I mean... alias woman=man?

    [–] VinnieFarsheds -1 points 1 year ago

    Are feet pics included too?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Personally I find the built in --help option to be much more useful than manpages. Manpages are excessively wordy and almost never have info I'm looking for without having to search.

    Built in help options usually concisely list all the options with a brief explanation of what they do. That's perfect.

    [–] QuazarOmega 2 points 1 year ago

    Instructions unclear, stuck in a loop of running random commands to install tldr and not reading the package manager's man page