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archydragon

@stefano Someone recently mentioned in one chat that it really feels that many people rely on tutorials these days instead of documentation. They want to have explicit sequence of reproducible steps giving some visible result. Which isn't a bad thing by itself but quite often those people are easily confused when things are going not exactly in a way they've seen on screenshot or Youtube guide, even if it's some very clear warning/error which is well explained in the documentation. And of course for them it also becomes a very confusing problem when they meet any fairly narrow domain which isn't covered by tutorials as nicely.

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Stefano Marinelli

@archydragon yes, I've seen this, too. People are blindly following tutorials without asking themselves if/why they're doing those steps. This is ok if you need to extract a key from your smartwatch but can be a problem if you're setting up a complex web setup

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