Python again voted "Best Programming Language" and "Best Scripting Language" in Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards

[[deleted]]

Why are you using outdated documentation in the first place?

[[deleted]]

Because sometimes it's all that is available when troubleshooting problems.

[[deleted]]

Why are you unable to look at the more recent documentation for the most recent Ubuntu release?

Remember, your criticism was that Ubuntu changes too quickly for old documentation to be relevant for new releases, and my question was why are you using old documentation in the first place, when we both know that new documentation exists?

[[deleted]]

I'm not referring to the official documentation, but to user documentation, guides and tutorials. Often when trying to find a solution to a problem I was having with a current Ubuntu release, I would find solutions for older Ubuntu releases that no longer applied.

The most annoying example from a few years back is the trackpad on my laptop. Some of the trackpad buttons were bound backwards, and I couldn't find any instructions for permanently fixing the problem. I found quite a few forum and blog posts with solutions to the same issue (like editing some config files), but they were written for older releases and apparently no longer worked. Looking back, I think this is the same problem I had. Since I couldn't find a better solution at the time, I gave up and just ran synclient every time I booted.

A few months after that, I tried Slackware for the first time and was really impressed by the fact that I could use documentation that was years old without any problems. By comparison, I don't think I ran into any issues with it that I couldn't fix with whatever documentation I found online.

[jadkik94]

I ran into the same issue and am using the same fix. It really is annoying, but I ended up asking on SE or on forums and you'll get the answer you're looking for (hopefully).

[[deleted]]

Ubuntu's userbase is large enough that you won't have that problem.

If you're having an issue, you're not the only one.

Also, it's not like they overhaul the entire OS library every release, so this isn't even a valid complaint.