On Tue, 2022-01-25 at 16:24 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Jan 25, 2022, at 12:03, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > <rant> > > Perhaps not impossible, but certainly more difficult. I attribute > > this > > to the poor quality of much documentation. Gone are the good ol' > > days > > of UNIX when everything was in the man pages (as long as you had > > the > > patience to read them). Many tools nowadays don't even have a > > proper > > man page, if they have any at all (I'm looking at you, KDE), so you > > have to rely on a web browser even to read what help there is. > > </rant> > > I do suggest you try the “nmcli” man page, and the “nmcli-examples” > man page for examples. > > I feel the documentation is quite good and exceeds what might have > been there for the old ifcfg files. (which, iirc, were actually > documented in a .txt file in /usr/share/doc and *not* a man page) > > I know it’s fun to rag on the new (ish) things but NM is actually > quite nice. I was commenting in general terms on Tom's observation about needing Google to understand some things. I'm well aware that some things do have proper man pages, but quite a few don't. Anyway, this is really off-topic for the thread (hence the <rant></rant> brackets). poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
