[nagonago]

> They are almost without exception well-written and concise, and the intuition you gain for particular topics as you browse through the man pages is well worth the effort. In contrast, many developers shoot straight to googling the answer for the problem at hand.

Maybe worth the effort if you want to learn about a program in detail, but in practice I often give up reading the manual and use google instead because I just want to know/remind myself the most common use cases. To be fair, there are some man pages that have a great USAGE or EXAMPLES section which meet this purpose.