Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: on Nostr: For many years it was easier and faster for me to search for a man page on the web ...
For many years it was easier and faster for me to search for a man page on the web than to read the man page of the command in the terminal window.
Formatting was usually better, links were clickable, there could also be useful stackoverflow questions in the search output... Local docs became mostly irrelevant.
Nowadays web search is no longer the answer. Getting to click through 15 ads and a cookie banner to read a man page? What personal data you could possibly need from me there?
Formatting was usually better, links were clickable, there could also be useful stackoverflow questions in the search output... Local docs became mostly irrelevant.
Nowadays web search is no longer the answer. Getting to click through 15 ads and a cookie banner to read a man page? What personal data you could possibly need from me there?