[Mention your Sex if you are comfortable, I want to see the breakdown between the sexes here]
I just tried to skim through Linux User Manual and it was really quite informative and made me think of reading it someday, but I kinda know for a fact that that someday might never come, but it’s truly a shame though.
Now, you, yes you! Have you read the user manual of your Operating system!
[I am wasting a lot of time on here, so I won’t be engaging or enraging y’all, but this is a good convo topic, isn’t it? (try that on a girl), I just wanted to know how many or how few people read UMs]___
I’ve never read the manual for an operating system, but I always read the terms of service for websites I sign up for.
I’ll take, “Worst of all possible worlds for $500, Alex.”
It’s not too difficult, in fact many websites reuse the same terms and conditions, which means you can skim it over. I read it for the citations among other reasons, which I do by doing the CTRL + F trick.
I forgot what website it was, but there was a website that put in a large cash prize designed to be claimable by whoever read the terms of service. It took six months before there was ever a winner.
55M. Read many manuals of many operating systems over the years. Knowledge is never wasted, you can never know everything.
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I got a manual (or just a general book about DOS?) with my first MSDOS PC, which I read. Otherwise no. I have read books about Linux or specific parts of Windows/Linux, but no “official” manual.
I mean, my time came around long after the age of hundred-page software manuals. But I’ve spent a good portion of my life knee-deep in
manpages and Google searches, which kinda counts?this is a good convo topic, isn’t it?
not really, speaking as someone whose day job is systems programming
(try that on a girl)
you are such a slimy little incel, lol
I have read all of the Linux Kenel documentation, but am not close to reading every manual for every program.
I usually just read the sections relevant to me.
As useful as they are, user manuals are usually not known for their prose
Operating systems come with usermanuals? I’ve read a fair bit of the archwiki and manpages if that counts
With all due respect, hell no
Oh, now that you mention ancient times, I think I read through the entire DR DOS 6 manual.
I’ve read the Gentoo handbook and Sakaki’s old guide, if that counts.
Reading the entire user manual doesn’t seem relevant. IMO it is a reference work; like reading all of Wikipedia or a dictionary. A manual is not a tutorial, and neither are a wiki reference article database. Most users likely expect a more intuitive design where the proper reference materials either make themselves available when needed or are never needed at all.
I had no idea they had user manuals.
I never even thought about the fact that there might be actual manuals for operating systems
I’ll follow-up with the similarly naive: does Windows have a Linux-like thorough user manual? I’ve never even considered it.
I have no clue. Somehow, I expect people to just know things. Not really how it works, is it
