I've been using Linux distros for many years now, but I've always spent hours learning the syntax, then forgetting it and having to relearn it months later. Maybe I'm dyslexic? Or does "Linux" (the ecosystem) have an unnecessary bias towards convenience for people with great memory?
For example, I install debian with root zfs, so that has required me to write a doc with hundreds of lines of code. It's not fun at all, and hard to read, similar to this: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20Bookworm%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html
I.e. it breaks with programming principles of being self-explanatory code, well-named variables, and so on.
I often have to read through man pages and try to understand what a particular argument does, but searching for it doesn't work since it matches with other text. Am I using man pages wrong? Is there a tool that searches arguments specifically?
Obviously LLMs are a great help these days, but they sometimes hallucinate.
Do you struggle with this as well, or have you found tools to support you?
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