• LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    No, seriously.

    This mindset of, “If you don’t like to read pages of documentation to figure out how to do the thing you’re wanting to do, then maybe Linux isn’t for you?” Or the “god. How dare you ask such a STUPID question. You’re using Linux wrong and it probably isn’t for you. Go back to baby’s first OS!” Is the biggest gripe I have about using Linux.

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        1 day ago

        I’d put that one on the printer manufacturers. They love making them crappy.

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      2 days ago

      Especially since the manpages are not written to always be comprehensible for end-users, but for developers and professionals. Some tools like tldr can help, however they rarely come preinstalled and aren’t getting the attention they deserve.

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      So you ever tried support with windows? Go to some crappy community site with people who barely know what they are talking about and try some powershell and regedit crap.

      Or go read conflicting Microsoft documentation that always seems to make man files look easy.

      Its computers. You read stuff to deal with stuff, the OS is irrelevant.