Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "The MANliest way to learn Linux" video.

  1. Yeah, I don't get the position of "don't bother trying to learn to use the tools your distro provides because you'll just switch distros in a week anyway." Maybe not everyone uses Linux the same way or likes to reinstall new versions of Linux just for the sake of tinkering with configuration ad nauseum.
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  2. Man pages are helpful but I don't understand the anti-GUI bias for Linux users. Well, I kind of do, because as you said, Linux DEs are frankly lacking. But browsing man pages online in a browser is a lot more convenient than using the terminal if it is available and if you don't know the idiosyncrasies of, for example, the less reader. Command line options are usually not intuitive and vary based on the whimsy of whomever wrote the program so having a search option (CTRL+F in every browser, which almost everyone will be familiar with) and a comfortable reading environment is a must. There are other advantages as well. In MATE, for example, hitting ALT+F2 at any time and launching any program with autocomplete, and using pre-defined scripts that have all of the command line options you would want instantly is extremely convenient. Could you set all of this up yourself in a terminal using aliases, PATH var and scripts? Sure you could. You could also go and write your own operating system from scratch. One of the key tenants of software in general is that it is stupid to reinvent the wheel. DEs may not be perfect, but none of them (that I know of) bar you from using the terminal quickly and easily if you need to. If your use case is personal computer use and not learning Linux so you can manage servers for your job, it's better to not burn out on learning a bunch of new syntax that is not immediately useful to you.
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  3.  @TG-wg4tw  Any decent command line interface for a program, like apt or any other package manager, will have a help interface when you execute it with no arguments. In apt you can list packages and find all packages that begin with a phrase or contain a phrase. Just use the help options built in to the command line interface for that application if you find yourself struggling. If it doesn't have enough info, type "man" followed by the application you're struggling with.
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  4. I'm not sure what you mean when you say it has no useful examples. Useful examples is usually one of the few things I go to the man pages for, namely involving obscure command line options. Otherwise yes, I agree it isn't as useful as advertised unless you are stuck configuring a server with no internet connection or you are looking up an obscure command line option that virtually nobody else seems to use.
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