Sure, but that is very far from obvious, and very few people who don’t already have an understanding of this stuff are going to know to look there. When I search for how to do something on the internet I mostly find 2 kinds of sources: stuff that’s way dumbed down (and usually out of date/incorrect) and stuff full of unexplained notation/abbreviations/arbitrary conventions without any links to resources that explain them.
I guess my issue with the man pages is mostly that they just don’t try to be approachable to the not-so-tech-litterate folk who might be interested in Linux if we had resources that didn’t assume all this foreknowledge.
Sure, but that is very far from obvious, and very few people who don’t already have an understanding of this stuff are going to know to look there. When I search for how to do something on the internet I mostly find 2 kinds of sources: stuff that’s way dumbed down (and usually out of date/incorrect) and stuff full of unexplained notation/abbreviations/arbitrary conventions without any links to resources that explain them.
I guess my issue with the man pages is mostly that they just don’t try to be approachable to the not-so-tech-litterate folk who might be interested in Linux if we had resources that didn’t assume all this foreknowledge.