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    Man pages bad (sh.itjust.works)
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    [–] jadedwench@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] wer2@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social -1 points 6 months ago

    I once had to set up something on yocto. man pages matter.

    [–] yboutros@infosec.pub 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    tldr is a billion times better than man pages,

    apt install tldr

    Trusssssst

    [–] jadedwench@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

    The best was on arch because I had no idea how to use pacman, which I needed to install man, when I needed how to use pacman. I will have to take a look at tldr. I mostly use Debian without a desktop environment, but have an Arch VM for gaming here and there. Works out.

    [–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

    Agreed, in any context where I'd open man I'd rather tldr instead. If you needed to read chunks of documentation like in man I'd rather just google the docs instead than clunkily try to read in terminal.