my love for man pages.

I recently read a post here about how this sub only has beginners and experts, but no intermediate users, and while I was looking for content to read about the Linux boot system, I thought, “Man, it would be so nice to have a man page for this...”

That’s when I realized that, during my journey with C (I’ve been at it for a year now), I’ve come to love man pages. Seriously, at first I think it made me waste more time than it saved me in getting quick info on what I wanted (I had that classic beginner’s mindset of “I don’t care about the details, just give me what I want” for everything). Now man pages are my base reference for how to write documentation (I haven’t written much of it).

If you’re a beginner with just a few months of experience in C and Linux in general, give man pages a chance. It’s a shame that using these pages isn’t encouraged as much (at least I don’t see it).

That’s it. I just wanted to declare my love for man pages.