1.Go to youtube.com and watch a couple of videos on installing Fbsd.
In the same time to watch a video where someone explains how to use a simple light switch I read the amount of text that teaches me also the associated electrical wiring.
Videos are comfortable to consume, fun to watch, entertainment. I
love good movies!
But they are the most inefficient way of learning something there is.
Of course with a video the amount of information per second is way more than the bandwidth of text, sure.
But over 99% of a video's information is completely useless - inforubbish, newsgarbage, spam - entertainment.
Don't believe it?
Compare the amount of Bytes of a video with the amount of Bytes of a plain text explaining the exact same thing.
How it comes?
Text is concentrated knowledge, reduced to all one needs.
It doesn't bother and distracts you with gluts of useless details, like (changing) backgrounds, colorful blinking, what the speaker looks like, why there is a cup on a table or what's happening in the background.
All you actually really want and need is the text. Doesn't matter if it's written or spoken.
The things you can better understand by some sketch, a picture or even a video are astonishingly few.
And anyhow all of them need explaining text.
Pictures
can complement text, but never replace it.
Except one is not very slow everybody reads way much faster than anybody can speak or listen.
(If you look for a transscript of some sitcom, you'd be amazed that the text spoken within a 25 minutes long episode does not even fill one and a half pages!)
For people with untrained brains, a page text may look like some kind of marathon, and of course listening to people talking or watching videos is way more comfortable then. But so is to stay in bed or stuff yourself with fastfood instead do the cooking yourself.
Cooking needs training and costs time, but it suits your needs, varies more, is healthier, saves you money and - when you can do it - tastes better.
Making people lazy and selling them accommodatives is today's #1 business.
Besides video makes you forget almost immediately.
Video kills memory.
Dont' believe that either?
Experiment:
Watch TV, e.g. a quiz show. And while the host is asking a question try to remember the former question.
Or if you watch commercials, ask yourself what the former commercial was about.
Can you remember? While the TV is still running?
How far can you go back?
I always have paper and a couple of excersice books with a pen besides my computers (at the beginning of school available in all shops on special offer.)
I write down, what I've learned.
I don't want everything look up everytime I need it again and again.
I want to be independend.
I want to do it myself.
I want to become good.
I want to become fast.
I want to know.
I want to understand.
I want to learn.
Therefore I need to train, hence leave the comfort zone.
However, FreeBSD is not for being just another most comfortable turnkey OS.
It's for being individually tailored.
That means software you want to use.
And this means, you have to deal with way more than the FreeBSD handbook, namely many other (hand)books and manpages - many manpages, and forum threads.
App. 99,9% of all questions one may have about Computers, Software, OS, configurating or programming can be found already answered on the internet.
You just need to search, find and
read it.
That's the reason why so many people ask the same questions in forums over and over again.
They don't read.
And who does not read, cannot write, thus trashing forums, making them harder to search and read.
A good text needs way more time to write than to read.
With bad texts it's vice versa.
App. not even 1% are answered by video.
And exactly 100% of all you can find as video is already answered at least once with a text.
Only trying to imagine those all shall be done by video gives me the pure horror.
If we'd depended on videos alone we'd probably not left the middleages yet...
Stories, songs, ballads, legends.... lore - "videos" - have been within mankind for thousands of years.
What the catapult was for the boost into the new age was Gutenberg's invention of book printing.
Or summed up shortly:
RTFM!
For adminstration tasks it's always a good idea to have at least a second machine available, with an internetconnection and a webbrowser.
