Man pages bad

what's wrong with man pages?

You need to read them apparently? I don't know, this is weird
- Yeah, many people don't want to read and understand, just copy and paste.
  I saw that in a lot of people I worked with on projects, they just look for something to copy and paste from the Internet without even trying to understand what it does. Just looking for some command without even paying attention to the text around it.
  I remember one girl once that I gave her the link to the documentation explaining step by step what she needed to do, a link I had to find myself and pass it to her, of course, even when it was her task. Those steps included some alternatives like "if you are in this situation, run this command, but if you are in this other situation, run this other command" but she ignored all the instructions on that page and started copying and pasting every command that was found there. When I asked her what she was doing and why she was running every command there without reading the explanations around them, she said she thought she just had to run all the commands on that page.
Some man pages are just gigantic lists of unintuitive parameters in alphabetical order with no usage examples and even if you know how to search for text in a man page (forward slash then the text you want to search for) you're just stabbing in the dark.
Others are excellent.
The problem with man pages is that you never know if you're getting the former or the latter.
They're the best. I mean, just look at the alternative that Windows offers... oh wait there isn't any.

I'm so fucking sick of every Linux meme being negative... Like are we supporting the community or actively trying to sabotage it?

Fuxk all these memes

Linux makes the word turn

Learn it and support it

This all started as irony, but it has gone too far

Regroup and get creative you sad intelligent fucks

Man pages are great to have, all documentation easily accessible, mostly complete and directly available in your terminal.

Compare this to the shitshow that is git --help in windows opening a stupid browser. Somebody should be defenestrated for that decission.

alias git="DISPLAY= git"

The internet is full of bad advice.

Man pages are never wrong.

Actually man page good

"tldr pages. Simplified and community-driven man pages. The tldr pages are a community effort to simplify the beloved man pages with practical examples."

https://tldr.sh/

Am I the only one using tldr?

Anyone who thinks this is just incapable of navigating them.

Manpages are good reference documentation when you already know which tool to use and how to use it and just need to tweak something. They can often be overwhelming otherwise. Just look at the number of flags on any git command, for example.

Wrong meme. The dark place is systemd.

Man pages save me an online search multiple times per week. Not sure that you're no about

It's a /s meme.

Laughs in RHCSA exam.

Man pages are amazing, the day I learned how to read command syntax me y understanding of linux skyrocketed.

A lot of people in here need tldr before getting comfortable with man it seems

Why is Simba pogging

Hey, I always check man pages, they are pretty usefull

This is how you end up being bullied by hyenas

I get confused every time I install a distro and man isn't installed by default. I guess I get the bare minimum philosophy, but it throws me off every time. First thing I install is vim, man, git, and probably a couple other things I can't remember right now.

I do like a decent man page that has examples for us dummies and I have found that they have improved a lot over the years.

There are distros that don't install man by default? Crazy.

Reading man pages is a skill of it''s own and the quality of man pages vary. However the ways of figuring out how to do something. 'Command -h' or 'command --help' 'man command' Search online for 'command examples'.

Even with that title people still missed the sarcasm, mad

Honestly, I don't think I've used terminal in a year.

You sure you're a Linux user?