Clarification: Just making fun of people(including myself) who watch shitty videos instead of official documentation.
Same outcome even if you read man pages
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A lot of man pages suck ass.
Except openBSD ones, they should be the standard of quality for user documentation.
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Consider this, nearly every major distro (and some minor distros like Alpine) has a wiki (or is based on a Distro that does).
Thihi and sooner or later they all end up at the arch linux wikis.
We use arch btw.
I also use Arch btw :3
Nice friend
Fren :3
True but if you're distro offers a good enough user experience then you won't be spending nearly as much time in docs, as opposed to just enjoying your desktop.
Being for more "technical people" is just a lame excuse for bad UX.
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Having a good --help command does wonders.
There are man pages which do avoid me opening a web browser, the systemd ones are pretty good for example.
I just installed tldr to test it out tho.
If you want to really learn what you're doing, try info coreutils
what the fuck is a man page
man man
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same energy as "moon moon"
whatis man
something related to mansplaining... /s
its a giant wall of text i have never used that can be opened with the terminal command man <othercommand> where is literally any other command
Don't forget the HEAVY Indian accent