Linux Manuals Nobody Reads

Apple makes products that come with no manual, that everyone knows how to use. Linux distributions come with thousands of manuals and no one knows how to use it anyway! Forget peripherals. The real reason is RTFM culture. The reality is that consumers do not want to RTFM. I use Linux. I have since 2003, and it's now my main OS. How many people in macOS have to parse an xrandr command to startup to make their secondary monitor work? Seriously. Linux is not intuitive to the end user.. fix it.

A screenshot of a social media post criticizing Linux distributions for being unintuitive despite providing thousands of manuals, contrasting them with Apple products. The joke is that Linux users are expected to “RTFM” (read the fucking manual), while even experienced users may need obscure commands like xrandr to solve basic hardware problems; it is shared as a sarcastic tech-community reaction to Linux usability debates.

• @gentoomemes / 17068 2025-04-28