I dint do nuthin!

I think of those as BSD thoughtful and pondered, and Linux as fairly fast and maybe thoughtless (in the jouyful sense that things have to go forward). In the end BSD is definitely cleaner, but behind, and Linux is much messier but is at the front of what’s going on.

And I’m sayin this as someone who’s worked with both systems for decades and even though I prefer Linux on the desktop or on servers, on embedded systems, where you’d need some really clean code to poke at, BSD really shines.

Of course BSD works fine (mostly) everywhere. It’s almost as good today as it was in 2000.

But that’s good for their credit score? That’s what I gathered from reading US forums.

I’m not sure how that stuff works over there, but apparently, the more you spend other people’s money, the more money they give you because it’s good for the economy, and then they reposess your home. Or something like that.
I did economy in university, but I argued a lot with my teachers.

Silly Google, we don’t run Chrome.

It’s a good thing that windows is so easy and user friendly. Right?
Right guys?

It’s probably got AI now.

alt.fan.planes.crash.crash.crash

What’s not worth hiding today may very well change tomorrow. You never know what moronic laws may come to pass. US example, the war on pregnant women.

Wow, I’m sure glad I missed this the first time around.

The problem is that the purpose of Anubis was to make crawling more computationally expensive and that crawlers are apparently increasingly prepared to accept that additional cost. One option would be to pile some required cycles on top of what’s currently asked, but it’s a balancing act before it starts to really be an annoyance for the meat popsicle users.

a long tradition of neutrality

Lol. Nobody ever talks about the Swiss concentration camps. Or the jewish refugees the gave back to the Nazis.

this advice would not be helpful for an openbsd system

Sorry, I wasn’t aware of that. BSD usually has excellent pan man pages.

Here’s the relevant section in the Linux one:

The following conventions apply to the SYNOPSIS section and can be used as a guide in other  sections.

       **bold text**          type exactly as shown.
       *italic text*        replace with appropriate argument.
       [-abc]             any or all arguments within [ ] are optional.
       -a|-b              options delimited by | cannot be used together.
       argument ...       argument is repeatable.
       [expression] ...   entire expression within [ ] is repeatable.

The destination, with or without the username to connect as, may not seem like an “argument” to a new user since it doesn’t have a dash before it like the example does

Then the new user should real the ssh manpage which very clearly specifies that it is.

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.

That’s a fair point. Their problem is that they both have to be relatively concise and as exhaustive as possible, which makes it difficult to be user friendly. So the style is usually terse and more friendly to seasoned users than to the new ones.

I think beginning users would do well to invest in something like an introductory ORiley book rather than rely on the often highly dubious online stuff. I’ve seen so many absolutely atrocious “Linux for beginners” pages that I really wouldn’t recommend any.

They’re explained right at the beginning of the manpage.

The man manpage. I’m sure it was the first one you read? Because you wanted to know how man worked?

Read the man manpage and all will be revealed.

We used to have that in France but I think they killed the service in the late 90s or early 2000s. It was typically paired with night trains, I thought it was a pretty cool system.

Theoretically, you can still do NY to LA?

There’s sometimes a few Ikea style pictures showing how to put it on a table and plug it in. Which is possibly useful to some.

People don’t know about man -k because of all the man pages they should have read, they forgot the man one.

You get to learn the notation conventions with <> and [] fairly early on. Maybe a very new user would make that mistake. If he doesn’t get it fairly quick, maybe computers aren’t for him.