[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 had no idea they had user manuals.
I never even thought about the fact that there might be actual manuals for operating systems
I’ve never read the manual for an operating system, but I always read the terms of service for websites I sign up for.
Operating systems come with usermanuals? I’ve read a fair bit of the archwiki and manpages if that counts
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 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?Sure, I read the manual all the time. I have a short memory for each tool’s options and syntax.
Have I read it cover to cover? No, and I never will.
Yes, male. I read everything I could find about my Commodore 128 and how it worked internally. Taught myself assembler.
We have a lot of machines that run on HP unix at work. I read a lot of those manuals as I didn’t want to break anything. It’s very annoying to use coming from modern Linux.
I read some of the 9front documentation and a lot of the Debian administrator’s handbook. I’m weird and just like operating systems though.
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 the entire code base of the MINIX operating system. Does that count?
Male. I’ve never read it. I use windows 11.
Male. My first computer was an iMac 333. It came with a book, that I read from start to finish, then proceeded to use it for nothing but Soundjam (iTunes) and Hoyle Cards
I remember reading some old technical manuals for windows 95 way back in the day. Taught me heaps about PnP, bus arbiters and so on.
To be fair, I probably didn’t use that knowledge all that much as PnP and ACPI actually worked really well (I was fortunate enough to only have to deal with DOS as far as himem and whatnot…)
The old GUI style guidelines were fantastic back in the day too - completely unlike the anything-goes approach to modern software development (very different pros and cons, basically), especially in windows-land.
Am male
