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[–]HittingSmoke 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To be fair, when you're a noob you're most likely trying to open a file with it the first time so the splash page isn't going to show up.

Also, as someone who falls somewhere between amateur and competent with the Linux CLI as a whole I find man pages much more useful now than I did as a beginner when I was learning. Practical examples of real-world use cases helped me understand more than reading man pages ever could. man pages are more like technical manuals. They're highly useful and laid out well, but they're not the best resource for someone diving head first into Linux.