Clarification: Just making fun of people(including myself) who watch shitty videos instead of official documentation.
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I had to run this command once, not for the faint of heart, and takes about as long as a full OS reinstall...
sudo aptitude reinstall '~i'
This command reinstalls all registered packages on a Debian based distro, including Ubuntu and Mint.
Was totally worth it though, it kept all my files and config intact, and repaired all the packages that Timeshift borked up (my experience with Timeshift was BAD!)
Honestly I kinda like man pages. It is a pain but it is the least painful. And compared to e.g. the PowerShell docs, I love the man pages.
I'm in this image and I don't like it.
Man pages suck ass. But not as much as fucking YouTube tutorials.
Can someone just write a nice plain English instruction page?
Has anyone here ever come across a low res tutorial video with microsmic font that is impossible to read? I appreciate their desire to help others but why do people do that?
How do you find the good ones around all the spam and absolute trash though? Teach me sensei please?!
Having a good --help command does wonders.
There are man pages which do avoid me opening a web browser, the systemd ones are pretty good for example.
I just installed tldr to test it out tho.