The indoctrination of windows is extreme. Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

And yet… linux is hard, and users decry RTFM as “not growing the userbase”

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    It’s hard to read because people lack background knowledge. Man pages were horrible for my first 15 years or so.

    Once you have the skills that you hardly need to read them they’re fine.

    That’s why everyone wants to look it up on stack exchange, they want the answer, not an unending series of lessons

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      Man pages are still not great on Linux. Very few examples with common use-cases and explanations. I shouldn’t need to visit the Arch wiki.

      OpenBSD man pages are a delight in comparison, and really all you need to learn how to manage the system.