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arrow-up1811arrow-down1imageI'm Guilty as Chargedlemmy.zip@[email protected] to linuxmemesEnglish • edit-21 day agomessage-square101fedilinkfile-text
Clarification: Just making fun of people(including myself) who watch shitty videos instead of official documentation.
minus-square@mlglinkEnglish57•1 day ago “How do I do X in linux?” “Yeah so basically you just need to run this command and it should work on Ubuntu 12.10 (Last edited: Nov 2012)” “Hey guys the way to do X changed in Ubuntu 16.04, see this updated link (Posted: Jan 2017)” “Actually Ubuntu 18.04 is now using Y so you have to follow this new guide (Last edited: Jul 2019)” "Crossed-out outdated guide For Ubuntu 22, please reference this Canonical guide here. All other distros can simply use Z (Last edited: Aug, 2022)" “404 not found (Canonical)” “How do I do X in Debian?” “You can run Z to do X (Posted: Oct 2013)” “Thanks for this, it worked! (Posted: Sep 2023)” “How do I do X in Fedora?” “Ah just follow this wiki (Posted: Feb 2014)” “(Wiki last update: Mar 2023)” “How do I do X In Arch?” “RTFM lmao: link to arch wiki (Posted: May 2017)” “(Wiki last update: 3 minutes ago)”
minus-square@durfensteinlink3•20 hours ago“How to do X on Y?” “Why would you ever want to do X? Do Z instead!”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•1 day agoDid you know you can filter search results by time? When it comes to computer questions in particular, I always ask for results from within the past year.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•16 hours agoThen it’s time to expand the date range and/or try other search engines. Sometimes you’re just fucked and you have to make a post.
“How do I do X in linux?”
“Yeah so basically you just need to run this command and it should work on Ubuntu 12.10 (Last edited: Nov 2012)”
“Hey guys the way to do X changed in Ubuntu 16.04, see this updated link (Posted: Jan 2017)”
“Actually Ubuntu 18.04 is now using Y so you have to follow this new guide (Last edited: Jul 2019)”
"
Crossed-out outdated guideFor Ubuntu 22, please reference this Canonical guide here. All other distros can simply use Z (Last edited: Aug, 2022)"
“404 not found (Canonical)”
“How do I do X in Debian?”
“You can run Z to do X (Posted: Oct 2013)”
“Thanks for this, it worked! (Posted: Sep 2023)”
“How do I do X in Fedora?”
“Ah just follow this wiki (Posted: Feb 2014)”
“(Wiki last update: Mar 2023)”
“How do I do X In Arch?”
“RTFM lmao: link to arch wiki (Posted: May 2017)”
“(Wiki last update: 3 minutes ago)”
“How to do X on Y?” “Why would you ever want to do X? Do Z instead!”
Did you know you can filter search results by time? When it comes to computer questions in particular, I always ask for results from within the past year.
Hmmmm
Then it’s time to expand the date range and/or try other search engines. Sometimes you’re just fucked and you have to make a post.