New: Myrlyn Help Center

“Release early, release often”, they said…

Still heavily work in progress, but the first sections “Privileges” and “Customization” are already filled with content.

There will still be typos galore. Still, it might be interesting for some.

→ Myrlyn Help Center

Of course this will be linked from Myrlyn’s “Help” menu - unless you are not a good Myrlyn citizen and refuse to use sudo / myrlyn-sudo, in which case it can’t drop privileges to talk to your web browser. In that case, start it as a normal user, use the “Help” menu there and set a browser bookmark.

Available from a myrlyn-git repo near you once it’s built and published. But you can already read it from the link above

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Stefan, many, many thanks for you relentless and continous work!

I honestly wish you success with this feature. But i fear that it won’t stop any complains or 1000 times repeated questions. Best example is the wiki. We have some really good and up to date articles. But users today do no longer bother to read 3 consecutive sentences in an article. Better make an account in a forum, complain, ask a question which was asked several times and explained the same amount of time. Users tody needs to get spoon feed. No one wants to read or do a basic search on its own…
That is sometimes really annoying for users which startet their Linux journy before forums or extensive documentation as today existed…

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I know. But now I counter them with a good old “RTFM”. :slightly_smiling_face:

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New Help Section Available: Updates

→ Updates Help

This is my development branch, so I am force-pushing there frequently to avoid several hundred commits because of typo fixes etc.; but it will always be the latest version.

Those with some know-how about updates, please check if everything is factually correct. Ignore the typos for now; I’ll be going over this several times in the next few days.

If anything is totally unclear, please let me know.

If I made wrong assumptions or if something is just plain wrong, please let me know.