> I don't understand the fascination with these "make a list" style setup instructions...
> ...as they're almost immediately outdated, and seldom updated.
Your second sentiment is the reason why I appreciate the "make a list"-style tutorials. When something inevitably goes out of date, I can at least see some of the narrative and reasoning for each step, instead of trying to debug someone's shell script that they've left to obsolescence.
Even better is when I have 3 such tutorial-lists to compare, making it easier to see which steps are integral and which steps were simply author-specific conventions.
> ...as they're almost immediately outdated, and seldom updated.
Your second sentiment is the reason why I appreciate the "make a list"-style tutorials. When something inevitably goes out of date, I can at least see some of the narrative and reasoning for each step, instead of trying to debug someone's shell script that they've left to obsolescence.
Even better is when I have 3 such tutorial-lists to compare, making it easier to see which steps are integral and which steps were simply author-specific conventions.