Noooo, you cannot have a consistent UI/UX experience across platforms with decades old commands and tools, my imaginary grandma might get confused, also you need three IT degrees to type “man command” into a term window.
Tbf, most man files are not easy to understand.
Between man, tldr, ArchWiki, and an occasional O’Reilly book I can usually get things done, but documentation on Linux still has a lot of room for improvement.
Other than stuff like ffmpeg - which has so many features that a man page just can’t cut it; and sed - which doesn’t have a simple hyperlink saying “you go here to learn sed regexp”, most man pages do what I need them to do.
You just need to learn the basics of how the man page is organised and what the brackets in the SYNOPSIS section mean and that makes using them much easier.
Noooo, you cannot have a consistent UI/UX experience across platforms with decades old commands and tools, my imaginary grandma might get confused, also you need three IT degrees to type “man command” into a term window.
Tbf, most man files are not easy to understand. Between man, tldr, ArchWiki, and an occasional O’Reilly book I can usually get things done, but documentation on Linux still has a lot of room for improvement.
Other than stuff like
ffmpeg- which has so many features that a man page just can’t cut it; andsed- which doesn’t have a simple hyperlink saying “you go here to learn sed regexp”, most man pages do what I need them to do.You just need to learn the basics of how the man page is organised and what the brackets in the SYNOPSIS section mean and that makes using them much easier.
We also have
man manfor that purpose.“imaginary grandma” is a crazy form of grandparent-denying gaslighting and I will absolutely start using it
This is why I hate linux, it appeals to the male fantasy !!!
I guess you never heard of the finger command.