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Yes I’ve read the entire Unix manual

Sex: Never

With all due respect, hell no

I never even thought about the fact that there might be actual manuals for operating systems

I got a manual (or just a general book about DOS?) with my first MSDOS PC, which I read. Otherwise no. I have read books about Linux or specific parts of Windows/Linux, but no “official” manual.

I had no idea they had user manuals.

There’s a manual?

No, because documentation should be more like a dictionary than a novel - it’s written to convey info quickly and accurately, not interestingly. 😆

Next time no need to add on apologetic stuff at the end of your post. People will engage with your post or not, it’s the Internet, it’s fine

Looks like they’re coming over from reddit. Obligatory “women, not girls you incel. Go outside and touch grass”.

Reading an OS manual cover to cover is a collosal waste of time. There are more efficient ways to level up skills. But what do I know with my gIrLy LoGiC.

this is a good convo topic, isn’t it?

not really, speaking as someone whose day job is systems programming

(try that on a girl)

you are such a slimy little incel, lol

Piece of wet cardboard here. Can’t read. What’s an operating system?

I read most of the DOS 6.0 manual around 1994. This was the era of memory management. Computers had 640k of conventional memory despite my PC having 4M of total ram. Every TSR you could extract out to high or extended memory would have a massive impact on the performance of high demand applications (like all my important applications from Lucas Arts…). I managed to get mouse, soundcard, video, and other drivers loaded and still have 580+K of free conventional memory.

Now I design web scale server architectures capable of handling hundreds of requests per second with five 9’s of uptime (for a few years anyway), and that memory management, from back when I was a tween, is still one of my proudest technological achievements. Thanks DOS manual!

Yes, male. I read everything I could find about my Commodore 128 and how it worked internally. Taught myself assembler.

I’ve read the Gentoo handbook and Sakaki’s old guide, if that counts.

Reading the entire user manual doesn’t seem relevant. IMO it is a reference work; like reading all of Wikipedia or a dictionary. A manual is not a tutorial, and neither are a wiki reference article database. Most users likely expect a more intuitive design where the proper reference materials either make themselves available when needed or are never needed at all.

I’ve never read the manual for an operating system, but I always read the terms of service for websites I sign up for.