Hi Pierre, On 2021-10-04 22:18, Pierre Gruet wrote: > Do you know if users read our manpages? I feel we can expect /some/ > users will type > > man command > > if something is not working as expected, but for sure not all of them will.
I have few years of experience in teaching administration, programming and data analysis on Debian. I have the opportunity to peek over the shoulder at how students work, with their experience ranging from day one to around two years or so. My samples are quite modest, though. My experience is that rarely anyone I encounter look at system-provided files and documentation, be it manpages or PDFs in -doc packages. Students are used to look up for everything using their favorite search engines, usually ending up at Stack Exchange or outdated/too up-to-date web-hosted documentation. Encouragement to use manpages (even when they are literally at one's fingertips) rarely works. Probably because the command line environment is overly intimidating for the newcomers. Of course this is only my experience, and only with the beginners. Just thought that it might be worth sharing. As for less subjective analysis, does anyone know whether popcon is able to detect usage frequencies of individual files? Best, Andrius
