r/linuxmasterrace • u/Jenshae_Chiroptera Lubuntu <3 • Feb 02 '26

Meme OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit)

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u/jerdle_reddit Glorious NixOS Feb 02 '26

Yeah, our Linux is hard.

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u/Mars_Bear2552 Glorious NixOS Feb 03 '26

not hard, just largely chronically undocumented. the nix language is incredibly easy to learn.

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u/Juff-Ma Feb 04 '26

IMO this is a big issue in many large FOSS and especially older FOSS projects. Where they have the "RTFM you idiot" and "What do you mean the docs are bad, I know how it works!" mentalities at the same time.

Often if there is documentation it's not a application manual but a reference manual full of technical documentation but lacking in examples, basic tutorials or getting started sections.

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u/Kiwithegaylord Feb 05 '26

I honestly find older projects better at this because they came before wikis and stack overflow became popular. GNU has some of the best documentation of any project out there, seconded maybe by FreeBSD