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by HankB99 3044 days ago
A minor nit, I suppose. Formatting of cli commands has mangled them to the point they cannot be used. For example

# dpkg — list

will not work. The correct command is

dpkg --list

I suppose I'm particularly sensitive to this because I ran into a problem copying some commands from a terminal window into a Google Document and then copying/pasting them back to the command line. Google Docs had changed some of the spaces to something that looked like a space (both in the doc and in the shell) but was not and caused inexplicable error messages.

Anyway... I prefer stuff where I can copy/past directly to a terminal window and have it work as the author expected.