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🚀🎉 Ah yes, the pinnacle of modern computing: a man page that can't even load without #javascript and #cookies. Because clearly, reading documentation should feel like a trip to a sketchy website 🍪🤖. If only our forebears of UNIX could see us now, reveling in the endless potential of... waiting for a second-rate web page to load. Truly, progress at its finest. 💾🙌
linux.die.net/man/6/fortune #moderncomputing #manpages #unixlegacy #webdevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

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oh you got to be kidding me. You'd think that installing `man-db` would automatically replace the placeholder `man` command, but apparently it leaves it in place, and installs the actual command as `man.REAL`, which you then have to explicitly use dpkg to replace /usr/bin/man with /usr/bin/man.REAL.
github-wiki-see.page/m/blitter
#ubuntu #docker #manpages

github-wiki-see.pageSetup man pages in a minimized Ubuntu container - blitterated/docker-dev-env GitHub Wiki
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@Aissen @ariadne I found the systemd docs quite nice to read once you get the hang of
their lingo/structuring.

However I think #manpages are not enough. Despite what I thought in the past I quite like the info manuals these days.
Just the multi page html version of them isn't as nice to read. A central documentation system outside of manpages
would be a nice thing, just reading html documentation in a browser is not that useful.