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nobodyandproudyesterday at 11:39 PM1 replyview on HN

What do you consider laziness?

Why do you believe pointing to the manual is newbie friendly?

In the Linux world, it took ages before it was newbie friendly (thinking Ubuntu and Mint).

OpenBSD serves an important niche, but to brand it as newbie-friendly does OpenBSD a disservice.

Or perhaps you mean newbie tolerant?


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reploodatoday at 1:09 AM

> What do you consider laziness?

In this context, what I expanded above as foisting onto others the responsibility for the effort required by what we want to accomplish.

> Why do you believe pointing to the manual is newbie friendly?

To the documentation, which may or may not be a manpage; as it's usually done in response to a request for the information contained therein, I do find it reasonable.

> OpenBSD serves an important niche, but to brand it as newbie-friendly does OpenBSD a disservice.

We're discussing OpenBSD's community, not the system itself.

> Or perhaps you mean newbie tolerant?

I meant what I wrote, that I find the community to be the opposite of "notoriously terrible and unwelcoming to newbies," by which I do not imply newbie-friendliness in a kindergarten sense.