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This encapsulates one of my biggest gripes with Linux. A lack of appreciation for adequate/good documentation. > The time you spend on the man page is time tak
by jplayer01 8y ago
This encapsulates one of my biggest gripes with Linux. A lack of appreciation for adequate/good documentation.
> The time you spend on the man page is time taken away from more useful work.
Making sure your users know how your program works, how to use it and what it's capable of seems incredibly important and useful to me.
If it weren't for Arch Linux's fantastic focus on documenting everything to do with Linux, I wouldn't be using Linux at all.
- owaty 8y agoThat page is specific to man pages, not to documentation in general. See https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/GNU-Manuals.html https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/GNU-Manuals.htm...
- KC8ZKF 8y agoGNU deprecates man pages in favor of texinfo, not no documentation at all. https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Documentation.html#Documentation https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Documentation.h...